manifest destiny - political
The Oregon Land Donation Act made it so that anybody who moved to Oregon and worked the land for 4 years would get 320 officially given to them by the government. The land in Oregon was very rich and fertile and basically the farmers paradise. So of coarse, taking up the once in a lifetime opportunity, this brought tousands of settlers to Oregon to bein working the land. A lot of the settlers came from places like Illinois where they had already been farmers their whole lives and knew that they would be able to make a living off of it with the vast amount of land that was being offered. This was a political trick to get people to migrate west, concidering that even if they had just moved west on their own they tequnichally could have taken all the land they could claim. This way however gave the people an offer they couldnt refuse, and out they went to live their lives in
Oregon.
Oregon.