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Why did Americans first travel across the Great Plains? They were passing through on their way to the West Coast. They wanted to seek silver and gold there. They wanted to befriend the Plains Indians. They were surveying land like Lewis and Clark did

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A) They were passing through on their way to the West Coast.

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Option: They wanted to seek silver and gold there.

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Americans first travel across the Great Plains to get gold and silver in the 1800s. After the Civil War, a vast amount of people from the east began to move in the West in search of gold. The first wave of settlers to the West were miners. The great plains region consists of Texas, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma.

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