Lately there was a bigger discussion on the possibility of a ceasefire in the war. How would the further settlement and exploration look ? What would the relations with the natives are ? How would immigration to the US look and would they go to the West ? One issue between Northerners and Southerners before the war seemed to be the circumstance, that rich plantation owners bought land in the West (such a conflict had been portrayed in an older Civil War movie, were cadets at West Point argue).