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20 Read the excerpt and answer the question that follows. In accordance with our promise on our departure from Sweden we are sending you a few lines to tell you how and where we are situated at present. . . . We decided to settle in Iowa. . . . It has an abundance of water power, contains metals, marble, and several other natural resources, and only a very small part of this extensive territory is settled. . . . If only half of the work expended on the soil in the fatherland were utilized here, the yield would reach the wildest imagination. . . . —Peter Cassel, letter to his father in Sweden, February 9, 1846 Which reason BEST explains why many Swedish people settled in the American Midwest?

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