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People from the African ancestry to migrate into what is now the western United States originated from Central Mexico and it was almost 200,000 Africans transported between 1521 and 1821.
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Newcomers settled on the northern frontier of the Spanish colony,. They wanted to improve their lives.
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In 1830 nearly seventy thousand Native Americans were forcibly relocated from the Old South to Indian Territory.
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African-American migration to the West because black wanted to get out of being slaves.
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the Third Annual Convention for the Improvement of the Free People of Color considered the colonization of West Africa.
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Republic of Texas into a vast slaveholding empire in 1836
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African Americans started to venture into Oregon Territory.
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4,000 African Americans reached the Golden State. Half of that number settled in San Francisco and Sacramento
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After the Pikes Peak gold rush majority moved to California after Colorado Teritory
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1860 the black population of the western states grew from 196,000 to 1,787,000.
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4,000 African Americans reached the Golden State. Half of that number settled in San Francisco and Sacramento
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The 1862 Homestead Act applied to Kansas and other western states. Meanig settlers could pay a small fee to receive 160 acres from the government regardless of their race or gender.
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Oklahoma Territory became the other major area for African-American migration, but was originally set aside for settlement by Native Americans
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Between 1870 and 1890, some thirty thousand migrants settled in the Kansas
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African Americans had established a number of agricultural communities in Dakota Territory and in Nebraska.
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African-American men and women moved to Denver, San Francisco, Seattle, and Los Angeles in search of jobs in the urban economy.
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African-American population doubled from 253,000 to over 620,000.
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During the Gold Rush, San Francisco had the oldest black urban community in the West, but the number of African Americans declined between 1890 and 1910.
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The West's black population grew by 443,000 (33 percent), with most of the newcomers settling in the coastal cities like California, Oregon, and Washington
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1950 the black population of the western states grew from 196,000 to 1,787,000.
