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Q: Who supported selling western land cheap?
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The North opposed selling western lands because it feared losing its factory workers?

Yes they did. they knew if the west had land available for cheap prices, they would loose most of their factory workers.


Did the North oppose selling western lands because they feared losing its factory workers?

Yes they did. they knew if the west had land available for cheap prices, they would loose most of their factory workers.


Why did the north oppose to the idea of cheap western land?

because the north have a few land and the south havemore land i believe?


What did the Northwest Ordinance of 1785 provide for western lands?

It provided for the surveying and selling of the land


Why was there a western expansion?

Cheap land and eventually the discovery of gold in California and silver in Nevada


What did the land of Ordinance of 1785 establish?

it established a procedure for surveying and selling the western lands north of the Ohio river


Why did the South support the idea of cheap Western land?

It would increase the plantations, which means more slaves.


How did the federal government encourage western settlement?

The Federal government encouraged western settlement with the Homestead Act. This was a government policy that said that people who were willing to settle western land would be given large sections of land very cheap.


Why were western lands suitable for ranching and farming?

Huge expanses of empty flat land, many nutrients in the soil, cheap or free land, much native resources, e.g. animals and timber.


What were the two main reasons some states objected to Congress's disposing of western lands?

Reason #1- the states with western land claims did not want to give the land up Reason #2- land speculators were mad that they would not be able to sell the land that they had bought at a cheap price This led up to the Northwest Ordinance of 1785 and of 1787


What did Tecumseh compare selling land to?

Have a war to be started


What 1862 law helped settlers buy cheap land beside western railroads?

The homestead act of 1862. It provided 160 acres of land to anyone who who would pay only $5 on return.