What factors led people to move to the west, and who went?

Population growth in the eastern states.

Availability of cheap, fertile land.

Economic opportunity, e.g., gold (California Gold Rush), logging, farming, freedom (for runaway slaves)

And Pioneer settlers

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”

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