by providing financial compensation to all veterans affected by chemical agents
Explanation:
The Agent Orange Act of 1991 was designed to respond to the many health-related concerns expressed by Vietnam veterans in relation to herbicide exposure. The Act requires VA to presume that veterans who served “boots-on-the-ground” in the Republic of Vietnam during the war were exposed to Agent Orange.
That's where they were able to find the resources they needed for economic growth like minerals such as iron and gold. They didn't settle somewhere else because no other land had the resources they were looking for.