The main reason was that so they get to have the land.
-people wanted to move because they wanted better lives. they faced dangerous journeys .
-they moved west because land was cheap or free and they thought they would do better business in the west .
-people who weren't making business or wasn't making any money, found the opportunities to move west to start everything all over again
Northerners opposed the act because they thought it was a plot to turn this land into slave states.
