The United States has always been a country of expansion; from the time when Colonists wanted to live past the Appalachian Mountains to the time when we expanded to Alaska‚ Hawaii‚ and the Caribbean Islands. Throughout our time as an independent nation‚ our methods of expansion have both changed in drastic measure and followed the processes we used for Westward Expansion. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries‚ the expansion of the United States continued as it had in the past and
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Westward expansion The California gold rush began 24 January 1848 because James W Marshall found gold in Sutters Mill‚ Coloma. The owner of the mill‚ John Sutter‚ wanted to keep it quiet about the discovery. But rumours spread and it came 300 000 people from the rest of the United States and tens of thousands from Latin America‚ Australia‚ Europe and China. It was not easy to get to California and many people died on the way. The immigrants were later called forty-niners and came to California
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The author of “There is No True History of Westward Expansion‚” Robert Morgan‚ believes that Westward Expansion was pursued by the common people of America‚ and the government followed the people. This belief is false due to the fact that the American government was the source of the idea of expanding to the West. The American government‚ specifically President Thomas Jefferson‚ was the main push for westward expansion. President Thomas Jefferson aspired for the United States to reach from coast
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mountains‚ from Canada to New Orleans‚ completely doubling the size of the U.S. Jefferson believed if the whole country was a good down to earth working class community that it would be the future and uprising of the newly settle country. The Westward expansion is one of the defining themes of the 19th century American history both in positive and destructive ways. By the 1840s‚ 40% of the population of the US lived in the expandetery western territories. They left the east to move to the West to
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discuss the following question. "How did the industrial revolution impact westward expansion". Without the industrial revolution impact on westward expansion we would not have the America we see today. The industrial revolution took place between 1760 and 1840 around the world. The westward expansion took place from 1807 to 1912. Without the industrial revolution‚ westward expansion would have failed. Without the westward expansion America would be very different today but how did this come about. Firstly
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How did the Westward Expansion Affect Native Americans? The westward expansion affected the Plain Natives greatly. Education and jobs were shifted majorly during the westward movement which led to a completely different way of life. All of a sudden they were introduced to schools‚ when in the past they only learned from experience. They were familiarized to tradesmen jobs and farming‚ when previously it was limited to hunting for men and being a housewife for women. The Plain Indians used to learn
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The expansion of America from the thirteen colonies across the entire continent was known as westward expansion. In 1845‚ John O’Sullivan‚ a newspaper editor that was writing about the possible annexation of Texas‚ coined the term Manifest Destiny. “Manifest Destiny…to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions” (Wexler 96). Manifest Destiny inspired a 29-year old named Stephen F. Austin to talk grandly of colonizing the Mexican province
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our empire. In the United States‚ settlers across the board believed they were destined to expand across North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Thomas Jefferson‚ our third president‚ predicted that the nation’s future depended on its westward expansion. According to the online OpenStax textbook‚ section 11.1‚ subsection: Lewis and Clark‚ it states‚ “Many Americans also dreamed of finding a Northwest Passage and opening the Pacific to American commerce and influence‚ including President Thomas
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Jefferson had had the idea of westward expansion even before he became president on March 4th‚ ‚1801 he believed that “a republic depended on an independent‚ virtuous citizenry for its survival‚ and that independence and virtue went hand in hand with land ownership‚ especially the ownership of small farms”. (A+E Networks) Andrew Jackson was the 5th president of the United States and was president between 1829 through 1837. Jackson’s boldest decision during westward expansion was ejecting the Indians East
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Running Head: WESTWARD EXPANSION Westward Expansion and the Effects On the United States October 3‚ 2007 Abstract The Louisiana Purchase was the largest land deal in our history. It doubled the size of the United States and gave us a strong face as an economic power. It brought immigrants from all over the world for the idea of owning land and making a living for themselves. We also had a second expansion with the Adams-Onis treaty in 1819 (Davidson‚ 2002‚ p.p. 246-247) where we
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