Answer:Various conditions urged settlers westward. The Civil War had displaced
thousands of farmers, former slaves, and other workers. Eastern farmland
was increasingly costly, certainly for many African Americans or for
impoverished immigrants. Failed entrepreneurs sought a second chance in a
new location. Ethnic and religious repression caused both Americans (such as the Mormons) and Europeans to seek
freedom in the West. The open spaces also sheltered outlaws on the run.
Before the Civil War, the North and South had fought bitterly over whether the new territories of the West would allow
or prohibit slavery. After the war, with those issues behind it, the federal government opened the way to western
migration by giving away public lands—or selling them at rock-bottom prices.
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