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Which of these groups would have been MOST likely to settle on the Tennessee frontier in the late 1700s or early 1800s? poor white farmers looking for more land wealthy factory owners looking for a source of timber wealthy plantation owners who wanted to own more enslaved people Cherokee families from Georgia who were forced off their land

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Answer:

The most likely group to enter would be Poor white farmers looking for more land.

Step-by-step explanation:

It is because in the early 1800s, many Americans were living west of the Appalachian mountains. They were mostly in places like Tennessee and Kentucky.

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