Question

In the early 1800s, why did large numbers of immigrants move to the western frontier?

Answer 1

The answer is C Scandinavian immigrants moved to the western frontier to own land. 

Answer 2

The correct answer is C) Scandinavian immigrants moved to the Western frontier to own land.

In the early 1800s, large numbers of immigrants moved to the western frontier such as the case of the Scandinavian immigrants that moved to the Western frontier to own land.

Swedish immigration started with the first settlers. Indeed they formed the colony of New Sweden. The three major immigration wages from Scandinavia in the 1800s were the following. In 1840, but it was interrupted by the Civil War. The second wave was from 1866 to 1873. And the third one was from 1880 to 1890.