Why did Americans immigrate in the18th century?

A false statement. The westward movement of the United States did not begin in the17th century. 1607 The British first came to North America, 1776 The United States was founded.

The westward movement refers to the mass movement in which residents from the eastern part of the United States migrated to the western region, which began at the end of 18 and ended at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century.

Historical background of westward movement

As early as the colonial period in North America, people began to emigrate to the west. Slave owners in the south, land speculators and industrial capitalists in the north, usurers and ordinary people all hope to acquire land in the west. In order to limit the colonial people to the places they can control, 1763, an announcement was issued prohibiting immigrants from crossing the western Appalachian mountains. The revolution of independence broke this rule. 1783, Britain and the United States reached a peaceful solution, and Britain opened a large area of Indian-owned land from the west of the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River to the United States. At 30: 00 on May 8, 2008, President A. Jepperson passed the Indian Migration Act. Indians were moved to the west of the Mississippi River. Later, he sent troops to escort the Indians out of the east of the Mississippi River, and the colonial cause developed rapidly in this area. The land in the "Old Southwest" (including Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Missouri, Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana) was mainly occupied by plantation slave owners. It has become the main producing area of cotton. The colonial development of "Old Northwest" (including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin) was carried out rapidly because of the land regulations (selling public land at low prices) passed by 1785 and the northwest territory regulations of 1787. At the beginning of the revolution of independence, there were only a few thousand French people here. 18 10 immigrated more than 270,000 people, and 1860 increased to 6.93 million people, and the population of Chicago alone was10 million. This is an area with abundant crops and developed child care.