Why did pepople want to go west?

Question

for wa. st history

Answer 1

MANIFEST DESTINY, even though it's a f*****k i n ridiculous idea people believed it the "will of god."

Answer 2

well if you talking about during the great depression, it was mainly because of the Dust Bowl which took many people from their homes.

if your talking about during the Gold Rush it was b/c of the Gold Rush :)

and if your talking about the expansion of the united states in the 1840's that was called manifest destiny

Answer 3

there was this guy-i forget his name- who had the idea of 'manifest destiny' whoi believed it was the responsibility of americans to expand from coast to coast.

Answer 4

very good question "why DID" because they no longer wanna go there

JK

peace

Answer 5

Mainly for gold and opportunity.

Answer 6

For some, it was a chance at a new life; for others, a chance to get rich quick

Answer 7

because if they went EAST they would have to build boats.

Answer 8

People wanted to go west because initially, the gold rush.  Gold was discovered and people heard about it and went there to find their fortunes

There was a saying "Go West, Young man Go West"

The quote "Go West, young man." The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations says that the newspaper editor Horace Greeley coined it in his 1850 book Hints Toward Reform, then John Babson Lane Soule used it in an 1851 editorial in the Terre Haute (Ind.) Express. Bartlett's, however, says that the Soule article inspired Greeley to use the quotation in an editorial in the New York Tribune. The Oxford English Dictionary gives an uncharacteristically vague citation to Soule.