Why did people move to the Northwest Territory in the 1800s?

a. The federal government required poor immigrants to settle in the West.
b. The federal government gave large incentives to people who moved west.
c. Valuable slave plantations could be established in the Ohio River Valley.
d. People moved to create opportunities with farms on the rich soil.
e. The East had become unpleasantly overcrowded and industrialized.


D

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