What is an ECONOMIC reason for Westward Expansion/Manifest Destiny? *

A. Settlers wanted to spread Democracy across the continent.

B. The country wanted more land because it was getting crowded in the east. They
needed "Elbow Room."

C. People wanted good farm land to grow crops and make a living and new trade
routes with Native Americans and settlers of the west

Texas’ gulf coastal plains are the western extension of the coastal plain extending from the atlantic ocean to beyond the rio grande. its characteristic rolling to hilly surface covered with a heavy growth of pine and hardwoods extends into east texas. in the increasingly arid west, however, its forests become secondary in nature, consisting largely of post oaks and, farther west, prairies and brushlands.