Section outline

  • • Natural resources like fertile soil, trees, and minerals helped Michigan grow and develop.

    • Natural resources would have been useless to Michigan without human resources. 

    • People moved to Michigan from many different places and helped it grow.

    • Sometimes people moved to Michigan because things such as hard times pushed them out of the place where they were living.

    • Sometimes people moved to Michigan because things pulled them here, like good farmland and jobs.