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Why did the North oppose selling western lands at low prices?
It was concerned that it would lead to lower tariffs.
It was afraid workers needed for factories would move west.
It was afraid that it would increase industrial production.
It was afraid it would lead to an increase of slavery in those regions.
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It was afraid workers needed for factories would move west.
Northern industrialists and city leaders opposed cheap western land because it would draw laborers away from factories into free or cheap farmland, reducing the available industrial workforce and raising labor costs.
Northern industrialists and city leaders opposed cheap western land because it would draw laborers away from factories into free or cheap farmland, reducing the available industrial workforce and raising labor costs.
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