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Push factors were factors that urged people to move westward. These included costly eastern farmland, hope for African Americans or immigrants to not starve. Entrepreneurs sought a second chance in the new location. Ethnic and religious repression caused both Americans and Europeans to seek freedom there. The open spaces also sheltered outlaws. But the biggest of all these push factors was the civil war and the amount of farmers, former slaves and various others that it displaced causing them to move toward the west. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.wisegorilla.com/images/civilwar/civil%2520war%2520map.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.wisegorilla.com/images/civilwar/civilwar.html&h=349&w=570&sz=15&hl=en&start=13&usg=__HontrvrBDwPu9QWJEyUUB1W19yk=&tbnid=COsaR5KExVVEfM:&tbnh=82&tbnw=134&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcivil%2Bwar%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den

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