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Which of the Following Was True of New Englanders' Westward

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Which of the following was true of New Englanders' westward migration during the 1790s and 1800s?


A) Almost 800,000 New Englanders lived in a string of settlements stretching from Albany to Buffalo,and many others had traveled on to Ohio and Indiana.
B) New Englanders typically bought land in upstate New York from wealthy Dutch owners who were partitioning their vast estates.
C) So many immigrants were eager to sell their new farms and move even farther west that the price of land dropped steadily.
D) Farmers who had fled declining prospects in the East often found themselves at the top of a new economic hierarchy in the West.

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