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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: commerce *m and manufacture; the natural consequence of which is
the more rapid increase of population and of wealth within its
borders. The States situate upon the shores of the Atlantic
Ocean are already half-peopled. Most of the land is held by an
owner; and these districts cannot therefore receive so many
emigrants as the Western States, where a boundless field is still
open to their exertions. The valley of the Mississippi is far
more fertile than the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. This reason,
added to all the others, contributes to drive the Europeans
westward - a fact which may be rigorously demonstrated by
figures. It is found that the sum total of the population of all
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