The correct answer is B) the availability of farmland.
During the 19th century, the US was constantly expanding westward. Due to the idea of Manifest Destiny, the federal government strived to add as much territory to the US in order to connect the two sides of the continent. This resulted in the US gaining a significant amount of territory.
This increase in territory resulted in the federal government creating policies that encouraged American citizens to move west. One example would be the Homestead Act, which gave 150 acres of land to any American willing to move west.
They were able to freely pick whatever life style/ beliefs as they pleased. In england you could only strictly be protestant for example, and a huge majority no longer wanted to abide by that. So, going to new england gave opportunity for those individuals to have independent beliefs without being judged and executed for those decisions ( This would happen in England btw) . Without being dictated the colonists had the right to be free of expression and mind.
They are similiar because they both don't settle down
Inventions such as the printing press allowed him to publish influential writings.
The main reason many colonists believed they were justified in breaking away from British rule is because they believed that the British had violated their natural rights--mostly by taxing them without allowing them to have representation in Parliament.
