Push and Pull Factors

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Across
  1. 2. People looking for gold
  2. 5. Name of the gold rush that led travelers through Washington state up to Alaska
  3. 7. This type of transportation connected people in North America beginning in the 1830s
  4. 9. Discoveries of minerals, such as gold
  5. 12. This type of animal was a major source of food for tribes. AS settlers moved West, this animal began to die off.
  6. 13. A major boomtown in Alaska, due to the Klondike Gold Rush
  7. 14. You had to be this age in order to gain land under the Donation Land Act
  8. 16. A town created because of the discovery of Gold
  9. 18. Name of the painting depicting manifest destiny
Down
  1. 1. A situation that creates a sudden amount of weath or money
  2. 2. Something that attracts people to go and live in a particular place
  3. 3. Name of the town that just discovered 3 billion dollars worth of gold
  4. 4. New York City and ________ were the first two major cities in the United States
  5. 6. What modern state did the Klondike Gold Rush occur in?
  6. 8. The idea that The expansion of the US into the West was the country’s “destiny” and was justifiable.
  7. 10. The gem state, also one of the states a part of the Oregon Territory
  8. 11. Something that makes people want to leave a place or escape from a particular situation
  9. 15. The _______ land act was signed in the 1850s
  10. 17. A person's point of view