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As the US expanded, the government offered land grants to families that moved west. The discovery of gold also served as a catalyst for population increases, and later, the promise of work in the west during the depression would increase migrants again.

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Missionaries went to Oregon Country to teach Christian Religion to Native Americans. Fur trappers went there too. Some settlers came to start new lives.

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to gain land and make a fortune.

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