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Who stated that it was manifest destiny for Americans to settle the entire continent?
A. Frederick Douglass
B. John L. O’Sullivan
C. Stephen F. Austin
D. Jim Bridger

2. Why did Americans emigrate west in the 1840s?
A. There was a cholera outbreak in the eastern states.
B. There were altercations with Native Americans.
C. They wanted to fulfill the principle of Manifest Destiny.
D. The invention of plows and reapers made it easier to farm the land.

3. How did the inventions of Jethro Wood and John Deere apply to expansion into the western territories of the United States?
A. They allowed settlers to easily farm the lands of the Midwest.
B. They allowed settlers to settle on land they did not own.
C. They created cities for people moving west to settle in.
D. They reduced the labor needed to farm an acre of land in half.
 
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