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The are the 5 reasons/arguments that back up why it was destiny for United States to move west

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Stated in https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/homestead-act the Homestead Act opened up settlement in the western United States, allowing any American, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land. And you have to live on that piece of land for five years for it to become yours. You could live on it for 6 months and pay $1.25 per acre. Anyone in the military would subtract the amount of years served to the living portion of the act.

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The United States population density changed from one million to three million over the course of sixty years in the east. This gave the option of people moving west because it became hard to get jobs and land sustain a good and healthy life. In a chart we discussed in class in seventy years the population increased by 27,549,686 people.

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At this time most people that had to work, went to factories. Factories made people feel like they had no independence an like they were being treated like slaves. So when they heard there were opportunity to have a new life to be free they took the offer.

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On January 24, 1848 James Marshall discovered a 3 oz. nugget in the California River. After the word got out people fled out west to find gold. Some people wanted the gold for money but some people simply wanted it to start a better life.

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I think it was destiny to move west because we wouldn't be where we are now if we didn't.

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In this time period Americans had this belief that they had to move west to survive. According to https://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/25502 The term "manifest destiny" was first used by journalist John O'Sullivan in the New York Democratic Review in 1845. Therefore this drove people further wet seeking better lives and jobs.