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1. population pressure and desire for more land 
2. motivated by religious and civic ideology 
3. Discovery of gold in western territory 
4. Need for new resources 

Four or more different reasons why the United States felt pressured to expand to western frontiers :

  • prospects for mining and the gold rush (silver in Nevada)
  • the chance to engage in the cattle business; to "cowboy"
  • Train travel to the West is quicker, and the railroad has made goods more accessible.
  • The Homestead Act's opportunity to obtain land at a reduced cost
  • the identification of wheat varieties that can thrive in the Plains' climate.
  • They were able to adapt to life on the Plains thanks to new technology like the windmill and barbed wire (students may need to speculate as to why homesteaders needed these)
  • The "Wild West's" allure and sense of adventure

What is westward frontiers?

The geography, history, folklore, and culture of the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America—which started with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last western territories as states in 1912—are collectively referred to as the American frontier, also known as the Old West or the Wild West (except Alaska, which was not admitted into the Union until 1959).Following the Louisiana Purchase, President Thomas Jefferson specifically supported this period of widespread migration and colonisation, giving rise to the expansionist mindset known as "Manifest Destiny" and the historians' "Frontier Thesis." The folklore, historical incidents, and tales of the American frontier have been so ingrained in American society that the Old West, and notably the Western genre of media, has emerged as one of the pivotal eras in the formation of the American identity.

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