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Homestead Act
because they wanted to start a new live!
After a discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in California, in 1848 fortune-hunters, lanky nest and big family's, headed west
because it was a different type of slavery.
new settlers, herds moving, [e.c.t]
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Many settlers headed West because they were in search of good farm land. This is because the plains were considered too dry to support settlement.
Any of the states west of the Mississippi are examples of westward expansion. As the US grew, so did the need for more land. Settlers headed west looking for better lands and personal freedoms.
the west was offering land to the settlers
Settlers thought and overheard that there was gold over on the west
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
that the slaves worked in the south so that made the settlers move more into the west they pushed the slaves in the south and pulled the settlers back to the west
what route did the settlers take going west of the appalachian mountains
The Proclamation of 1763 was made so no settlers could settle west of the Appalachian Mountains
In 1852, the largest number of American settlers were headed west. It has been reported that beginning in western Nebraska settler wagons formed an unbroken line almost 500 miles long. It caused many Native Sioux tribes to view this huge influx with alarm. This would soon later become a source of conflicts between the settlers and Native American tribes.
The majority of the emigrants who headed for the far west were white and born in the United States. They were hoping for a better life.