Answer:
Option: They wanted to seek silver and gold there.
Explanation:
Americans first travel across the Great Plains to get gold and silver in the 1800s. After the Civil War, a vast amount of people from the east began to move in the West in search of gold. The first wave of settlers to the West were miners. The great plains region consists of Texas, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma.
United States was an agrarian-based nation. Prior to World War II, people were involved in agriculture than other existing industries. Technological improvements in farming introduced during the war years reduced farming dependencies on manual labor freeing people to move to the cities to find white collar jobs after the war.
After the defeat of Japan in World War II, the United States led the Allies in the occupation and rehabilitation of the Japanese state. Between the years 1945 and 1952, the U.S. occupying forces, led by General Douglas A. MacArthur, enacted widespread military, political, economic, and social reforms.
