Provide examples of how the desire for access to natural and mineral resources and the hope of many settlers for economic opportunities or religious refuge led to an increased migration to and settlement in the West.

Westward Migration

Explanation:

After the Gold Rush of California in the year 1849 and cultivation of fur industries that increased in the west, the people began to travel towards the west in search of better opportunities and better living.

There are people like the Mormons and Joseph Smith went to establish religious communities in the west. Some people were influenced by the Homestead Act of Lincoln that provided free lands to the settlers.

Thus these shows the desire of the people to move west for better natural and mineral resources and the economic opportunities increased the settlements in the West.

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panem is a communist totalitarian dictatorship where all the resources and how they are allocated belongs to the capitol. the districts exist only to provide goods and services for the capital and most of the citizens live in poverty. it is a police state where the "peacekeepers" use force and threats to keep the people under control. dissent is outlawed and those who disobey the law are executed, flogged, or turned into avoxes. the games are another means in which the ruling elite in the capitol exert their power over the districts. when reading the books i drew parallels between panem and the soviet union and north korea. in no way is panem capitalist. the people in the capitol are wealthy but the majority of them are involved in the government somehow. it was the same way in the former soviet union where bigwigs in the communist party and high ranking government officials were given access to goods, services, medical treatments not available to the general public. if you think panem has a capitalist economy you need to brush up on your economics.