History Resource Cupboard – lessons and resources for schools

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Were migrants pushed from the East, or pulled from the West?

American migrationThis enquiry allows your students to get to grips with the push and pull factors that dragged people West in the 1840s and 1850s.

They will be introduced to a number of factors,  classify them as ‘push’ or ‘pull’ factors.

They will then consider how important each factor was via a graphical grading system.

This is a straight forward enquiry which gets to the heart of the reasons behind the massive migration in this period.

 

 

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