Availability of new land for farming in the West, while in the east, most of the land has already been taken.
<span>A very famous example for this was the Land Rushes - the races for the land that started in 1889 </span>
Businesses made more goods than people had the money to buy.
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Some American politicians justified US imperialism at the end of the 19th century was by saying that the US was "helping" these distant lands by implementing a more sound social and economic system.
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