English settlers main hope was to gain land in the new world that they could use for farming. This would enable them to make money from selling crops. They would then pass the land to their sons keeping the family prosperous.
There were other settlers that left to escape persecution (mostly religious persecution).
They had to defeat the Southern armies on the South's home soil.
They would have to occupy each seceding state.
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slums and tenements because the urban environment was very poor
