According to the passage, which of the following was a main cause of westward migration?

President Polk's speech about the gold rush.

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California acceptance into the union as a state.

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The development of new gold extraction techniques.

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New immigration restrictions passed by the federal government.

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Solution

The correct option is A President Polk's speech about the gold rush.
Option A is correct because it is clearly illustrated in the third paragraph of the passage that - 'His address prompted many Americans to move west, as well as other fortune-seekers from around the world to immigrate to the United States.'
There is no evidence in the passage to suggest that Options B, C, and D are the right answers.
Hence, these are incorrect.

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Many people have heard of the California gold rush, which took place in the 1840s and 1850s, less than a century after the United States declared its independence. However, fewer realize that the gold rush was started by only two men—two men who would end up having a huge impact on the demographics of the state. While constructing a sawmill for John Sutter, the founder of a colony near Coloma, California, that he called Nueva Helvetica, carpenter John Wilson Marshall saw gold flakes in the American River. Marshall and Sutter decided that they wouldn’t share the news with anyone, but the resolution didn’t hold for long. Sutter’s discovery occurred in January 1948; by the middle of March, the presence of gold on Sutter’s land had made it into the newspapers.

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