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Grant led the Union Armies to victory over the Confederacy in the American Civil War. As an American hero, Grant was later elected the 18th President of the United States (1869–1877), working to implement Congressional Reconstruction and to remove the vestiges of slavery.
The answer is (D), all of the above.
Earlier, people lived in cramped spaces, so the prospect of land in the west was appealing to them.
The discovery of gold in California resulted in a lot of settlers moving west, as well, to search for a fortune.
Finally, many traveled west to start a new life out in the spaces where no one had claimed anything yet.
The Enlightenment valued reason above all, they thought the most important instrument for achieving knowledge. For this reason, they stimulated questioning, research and experience as a way of knowing nature, society, politics, economics and the human being.
They were totally against absolutism and its outdated characteristics. They also criticized mercantilism, the privileges of the nobility and clergy, and the Catholic Church and its methods (belief in God was not criticized).
They defended freedom in politics, economics, and religious choice. They also wanted the equality of all before the law.
The slave trade helped expand US agricultural production in the South