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The pilgrims once settle in New England but later wanted religious freedom so they fled to North America where the natives lived.
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Fur trade
Pioneer settlers were sometimes pulled west because they wanted to make a better living. Others received letters from friends or family members who had moved west. These letters often told about a good life on the frontier. The biggest factor that pulled pioneers west was the opportunity to buy land.
Originally Spain, Great Britain, Russia, and the United States claimed the territory. In 1819, under terms of the Transcontinental Treaty, Spain ceded its claims to the territory to the United States.
<span>Russia was the other country which threatened Spanish settlement in western North America. Peter the Great ordered the exploration of North America and laid claim to much of the western North America coast</span>
