The Federal government encouraged western settlement with the Homestead Act. This was a government policy that said that people who were willing to settle western land would be given large sections of land very cheap.
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The Homestead Act is what stimulated the western settlement.
Ceded its western claim that extended Mississippi River to the Federal Government.
Before the 1790s
A group of farmers. miners, and indains setteling in the western part of the world
Missouri