There was government incentive to move west. Generally speaking, the government would pay individuals to take land in the west. This was attractive to many of the lower and working classes, allowing for the beginning of the formation of a kind of agrarian middle class.
There were land opportunities, the Manifest Destiny belief, more resources, technological advances, adventure, population.
For the adventure
They were promised good land to farm
Gold
Jobs
Poor living conditions in the east
New start
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what kind of stereotypes were created about the old west
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because they wanted to
religious freedom and the gold rush
for gold mining,farming,and cheap land. (they wanted to start a new life)
The reasons the Chinese moved to the West was because they wanted to become farmers and start over in a new place.
They wanted gold and land.
because they were on land that the americans wanted to use, they werent concidered citizens to the government, and no one wanted to be the neighboor of an indian (for some reason)
He wanted better trades
Because it was getting to crowded in wooded areas
because he wanted to find the north west passage
they didn't
1) They wanted free land 2) They wanted some gold from the gold rush 3) They wanted free religion
People not in the west yet who wanted to go west.