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Promised better life

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Start a new life and manifest destiny

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To get a better life

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Because they were promised cheap farm land, jobs and to join family already there

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Religious persecution

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Corn growing in the east collapsed

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There was an economic depression period in the Eastern US, therefore attracting migrants to the west as a better life was promised and stories of people who fled in advanced were extremely optimistic, therefore encouraging people to move.

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Large amounts of space to escape from over population

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To chase the herd

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To to join family already there

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Because they were promised cheap or free farming land.

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Job oppurtinites like mining.

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Eastern farmland became to expensive

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To hide out from the Feds or escape your crimes

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Run away from persecution

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To escape religious persecution