Events are in order.
<span>Realizing that he could no longer protect the city,April 2 Lee tried to slip around Grant's army. Each time Lee tried to turn his soldiers south,Grant's troops cut them off. <span>April 9 Lee's army arrived at the small Virginia town of Appomattox Court House,there was a much larger Union force;Lee rejected his soldiers idea that they scatter & continue to fight...he admitted there was nothing left to do but go see General Grant. Lee surrendered in 1861.</span></span>
<span>The balance of power between slave states and free states would have been upset. If representative of slave or free states would have been in the Senate and the House of Representatives because of newly formed states, their agenda would have been superior to the other agenda every time.</span>
Your answer is they wanted to explore new land and get more resources. They also <span>thought with all of this material they would become more wealthy.
Hope this helped :)
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They wanted friendly countries, so that they would be safe from invasion. There was a deep fear of communism in the states.
Most archaeologists think that they came from across the Berring Sea over the ice
from Russian/Europe and made their way through North America.
