"Exodusters" Migrated to the West Often Because

"Exodusters" migrated to the West often because

A) Radical Republican rule had been reinstated and they were worried about losing their southern plantations.
B) they were making their exodus from the South in search of a place devoid of racism and poverty.
C) there was an abundance of houses, stores, and water in the West, especially around Kansas homesteads.
D) southerners had passed legislation banishing them to live in the desert because they were still vengeful after the Civil War.
E) they wanted to spread their beliefs in Christianity and convert Native Americans from coast to coast.