Which of the following would geographers consider a “pull” factor that con- tributed to the settling of the Far West?
A. The amount of farmland available for sale in the Northeast and Midwest
was limited.
B. After the Depression of 1873, many craftsmen in Northeastern cities
could not find work.
C. The children of large farming families in Germany and Scandinavia often
did not have enough land of their own.
D. Only a decade after the California Gold Rush, new discoveries of gold
and silver were made in Nevada, Colorado, and South Dakota.