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Westward I Go Free: A Tale of Westward Migration

6th Grade – 8th Grade

9th Grade – 12th Grade

English

Push-pull factors prompted white farmers to migrate west. The move had significant impacts on Natives who rightfully occupied the western land and on the quality of the land itself. This segment focuses on the Sager family, whose wagon journey included overturned wagons, lost limbs, and illness.