selling the heartland
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German Immigration to Kansas
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What is the difference?
Immigration- a person entering a country
Emigration- a person exiting their country
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1854
Kansas was opened to settlement 250,000 Germans set out to emigrate
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Emigration
Crossing last 40 days Bunk: 10 ft by 5ft and 3ft high Sailing hazards Fire Disease
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Ship Overcrowding
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Emigration
01122334455
1819-1829
1850-1900
Emigration
02468
101214161820
1st Qtr
185018751890
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Homestead Act
160 acre land plots Public domain lands to farmers Improve the land New Immigrants
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Pacific Railway Act
Allotments of Public Subsidize building of railroads Railroads would sell land holdings
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Railroads over seas
Kansas Pacific Santa Fe Ellinwood, Kansas
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Homestead Farm
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German Settlement
German Belt New England Emigrant Aid Society Fort Leavenworth Atchison
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Other Aid Groups
German Society of Pennsylvania New York, Pittsburg, Milwaukee, St. Paul
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Practical Counsel and Information for German Emigrants
Offers to arrivals Employment Legal Aid Banking services Information
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German Belt
Chicago, Illinois Cincinnati, Ohio Indiana Missouri Wisconsin Iowa
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Atchison
Kansas Zeitung First to sell the heartland Reach Germans on both sides of the
Atlantic
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Why would you need to sell Kansas?
Know as the great American desert 1870- only 13% of Kansas’ population 1870- 25% of Nebraska population
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Der Courier
Took on the Great American Desert “They also show they abundant
rainfall to be quite sufficient and that the attribute ‘dry’ is utterly unwarranted.
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Illinois Zeitung
Craftsmen $2-4 Buy farm land at $1.25 Horse cost $60-100 Cattle $16-30
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Standard/Benchmark/Indicator
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Citation
"Selling the Heartland: Agents, Agencies, Press and Policies Promoting German Emigration to Kansas in the Nineteenth Century." Kansas History 12 (Autumn 1989): 150-159.