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Why did the northerners opposed the federal government's sale of public land prices in the early 1800s?
1. Cheap land encouraged potential laborers to move from the northern factory towns to the west.
Why did northerners oppose the sale of public land?
here was no profit in it for most northerners and it would provide a way for wage slaves to find opportunities somewhere besides in the north. They wanted cheap labor and the west would slim the pickings provided by desparation and poverty.
Did the south want cheap western land?
In the years leading up to the American Civil War, both Southerners and Northerners sought cheap, if also usable, land in the West. For the South more generally, however, the key was finding tillable soil that could be used to grow cotton -- and be worked with slave labor.
One of the biggest pull factors that lured people to move West was cheap land?
the land was cheap
Why did settlers not move west?
They did they were encouraged by the cheap land. The government thought that by the Americans moving west they would be able to take control of more land.
People came west in 1800s in search for?
Cheap land and a new life.
Why did the cowboys want to move west?
extremly cheap land and new opportunty
Where were the pioneers traveling west going?
Because of cheap land and big dreams.
Why did people go west?
people went to the west to find gold and become rich.
What were the sectional interests of American settlers in the west?
Westerners wanted cheap land and good transportation.
Did northerners favor or oppose expansion of slavery in the west?
they opposed it
Why did the North opposed to cheap sell of land in the West?
The North feared that if land were sold cheaply on credit, many of its laborers would move West, thereby leaving a shortage of workers in the factories.
