USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A significant push toward the west coast of North America began in the 1810s. It was intensified by the belief in manifest destiny, federally issued Indian removal acts, and economic promise. Pioneers traveled to Oregon and California using a network of trails leading west.

Detailed explanation-2: -One of the main reasons people moved west was for the land. There was lots of land, good soil for farming, and it could be bought at a cheap price. In addition, it was very crowded living on the East Coast. The population of the United States was growing at a very fast rate.

Detailed explanation-3: -Western settlers of the 1800s included African Americans who were both former slaves and freeborn, Chinese Americans who moved to California with the railways, and Hispanic Americans who were given the chance to become American citizens after the Mexican-American war.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first white Americans to move west were the mountain men, who went to the Rockies to hunt beaver, bear and elk in the 1820s and 1830s. Then, in 1841, a wagon train pioneered the 3, 200km-long Oregon Trail to the woodland areas of the north-west coast of America.