By 1860 almost half of the American people lived west of the Appalachian Mountains. In the 19th-century movement of settlers into the American West, was initiated with the Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark´s expedition. I was also triggered by the California Gold Rush, the Oregon Trail and "manifest destiny." Manifest destiny was the believe that Americans were meant to expand across all of North America.
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The states surrendered their sovereignty, and could no longer coin money or raise armies of their own. The Constitution helped to stabilize the economy and fostered a bond of common interest among the states, but some feared the central concentration of power.
Answer: Many people wanted the united states to expand across the continent
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True
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The National Origins Act was an act with which the United States set up lot of limitations about immigration. This act prevented the people from East Asia to migrate to the United States, as well as minimizing the number of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe. The main purpose behind this act was to retain the homogeneity of the population and preserve the culture. The people from north and western Europe were not in such a situation though, and even though the United States limited the number of immigrants that they will get annually, they were not discriminatory towards these people. This is why the majority of the immigrants in this period from the countries like Germany and the Scandinavian countries.
