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Option: They wanted to seek silver and gold there.
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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.
The demand for slave increased because Growing rice required much labor, and the demand for slave labor rose. both have something to do with money.
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Smith was counting on a win in his home state of new York which had the most electoral votes of any states under new York election law ,no individuals could be on the ballot for both presidents and governors in the same election cycle, so Smith did not run for re election of governor of new york
