I think that courts favored Americans over immigrants because of nativism- the belief that a nations people are better than another country's people
15 (fifteen) miles<span>7:00 am: after every family has gathered their teams and hitched them to wagons, a trumpeter signals a “Wagons H0,” to start the wagons down the trail. Average distance covered in a day was usually fifteen miles, but on a good day twenty could be traveled</span>