This is why we are moving west. There was a widely held underlying belief that Americans had a mission to free movement and ownership of all territory they saw. This belief was bolstered by passage of the Homestead Act in 1841, which opened up the frontier to settlement. People left the east for many reasons and they traveled west hoping to find a new life. Common themes included freedom to worship they way they wanted, cheap or free land, looking for adventure and searching for wealth. And we are doing the same to find the rich soil and make a grand bounty of wealth and food.
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