Some settlers (also called pioneers) acquired land legally, through land grants, such as the Homestead Act, and through legal purchases of newly acquired territories. But unfortunately, there were also cases where prospective settlers who wanted certain land found that it was already inhabited by native people (then called "Indians"), so they took it over by force, by defeating the Indians in battle; or they advocated for government policies that removed the Indians and gave the land to the pioneers.
they fought the powhatanto win the lands
Settlers had an easy time farminng western lands
They both provided ways for settlers to acquire western lands
Few settlers wanted to move West at the time.
All lands were "indian lands". The settlers could not avoid them.
acquire lands west of the Allegheny Mountains.
People who migrated from the eastern states found opportunities in the west to get a fresh start and to acquire land.
People who migrated from the eastern states found opportunities in the west to get a fresh start and to acquire land.
forests and lands
Because then they could claim some of that land as their own, and make a living out of it.
Settlers expanded west to increase size of the country and to let more people immigrate to The United States.ANS 2 - The majority of the settlers moved west to get their own farmlands
The settlers of Maryland did farm the lands that they lived on.