Question

I'll GIVE 50 POINTS!!!!! AND BRAINLIEST Who benefited from the second wave of westward expansion in the United States?

Answer 1

Westward expansion, the 19th-century movement of settlers into the American West, began with the Louisiana Purchase and was fueled by the Gold Rush, the Oregon Trail and a belief in "manifest destiny."

Answer 2

The Mormons greatly benefited from this as they were find a place where they were free of religious persecution, Utah. In addition, larger slave owners' political power increased, newer landowners and homesteaders, hunters, trappers, and other people whose profession depended upon the land, and writers who had a whole new genre to draw from all benefited.