because they wanted to start a new live!
the gold rush. the majority of them wanted their share of the fortune being made in california
telephones
the sea
The Iroquois didn't move west. They were a northeastern tribe.
Homestead Act
Gold! By Jerman Alba
Settlers thought and overheard that there was gold over on the west
California (the west)
The things that made settlers move to the west was gold.ANS 2 - I'm not American, but my view of history was that most settlers moved west to claim their own farmland in the new territories.
Connecticut!
i dont
God
Manifest Destiny.
railroads
a. fewer social restrictions gave settlers more opportunities to pursue wealth in the west
It is "reached".
The general answer to that is that Americans have been moving West from the beginning. Daniel Boone led settlers through the Cumberland Gap in the 1760s. If by the West you men west of the Mississippi, there was a large migration to the Pacific Northwest (Oregon Territory) in the 1840s which was dying out when gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in California, and the Gold Rush began (1849), initiating the greatest westward movement in the 19th Century.