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So that they can have more power and more room for growth, also more space for people.

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So they will have more resources and more people would be able to live in America. Also, they may look more powerful if they have lot's of land.

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They would want more land so that they can have more plantations

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Why would the United States want more land?

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Why would the United States want more land?

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The Americans would want to gain more land to make space for more people.

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To have more power, and more area to grow.

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So they can have more land and more resources. Also they would have more room for the people.

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The Americans would want to expand for there economy and resources that can be found west. with the extra land and resources and people who want resources they could be able to become a superpower like it is today.

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Why would the United States want more land?

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Why would the United States want more land?

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To have more resources, and to create more room for the US to grow.

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Why would the United States want more land?

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Why would the United States want more land?

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To have new resources and expand land for more people.

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Why would the United States want more land?

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Why would the United States want more land?

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They would want more land to gain room for people in the United States.

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Why would the United States want more land?

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Why would the United States want more land?

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The United States would probably want land because you would have more resources like wood, water and food. You would also have more space for the growing population.

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To have more resources, power, and more space.

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So they can have more power and resources and if they have more land so then they could have war then they would have more of there land to fight on

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The more land you have  the more resources you have  then you have more buildings more ammunition so if they ever got threatened by another country they could defend the united states. Another thing is they needed more land to hold everybody in the united states.

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Americans wanted more land

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Why would the United States want more land?

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Why would the United States want more land?

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To have more resources for peoples daily life and to spread out expansion of land , and power

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To have more power and more space for the people 

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To have more power and more space for the people 

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To gain the new resources in the land and have more room for the US to grow