This 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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