Because the United States government was giving away free land if you promised to stay in your given land for 5 years and use it to grow crops.
Homestead Act.
Answer:
Improving roads and vehicles of transportation allowed for increasingly far-flung marketplaces in medieval Europe, which had an impact on traditional estates of society.
Explanation:
Because the map in his time was wrong, China was thought to be farther east than it was, the Americas were not on the maps the combines Atlantic and Pacific was thought to be much narrower than they are.
What steps they took were getting together, and protesting little things with one-another about the unfairness of how they are being treated. Alawys the first thing ANYBODY did to get equal rights was first getting together with people who felt the same way. :-)