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Most of the capital letter and punctuation marks have been left out of these paragraphs. Underline 3 times all of the letters that should be capitalized and put in all of the necessary punctuation marks.
western trails
in the middle 1800s many people were traveling west across the united states these groups of families made the journey for many different reasons some of the people were looking for religious freedom they wanted to be able to practice whatever religion they believed in without anyone else harming them some other travelers wanted to get rich by finding gold others were looking for cheap land so they could become ranchers or farmers ( You should have found 6 sentences.)
different groups followed different wagon trails to get to the oregon territory and other parts of the west the oregon trail had many travelers in fact it was the busiest trail of all another trail was called the mormon trail because the mormons, a religious group, traveled on it they settled near salt lake city utah there were many other people who followed the trail in order find gold so many people traveled to find gold that the event came to be known as the gold rush ( Did you capitalize 21 words?)
the movement of people westward was interrupted by the civil war after the war the railroads were built and then it was easier for people to cross the united states
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