Expansion To The West Expansion

Westward Expansion caused many problems, but without westward expansion we wouldn’t have a lot of the land or culture we have today. Westward Expansion may have almost destroyed America, but it did give the U.S more land and it lead to many other historical events. Without moving into other Nations territories we wouldn’t have the America we have today.

As Western Expansion picked up, it became clear that just as before, the goals of American expansionists conflicted with the needs of the Natives in the area of expansion

Ever since Jamestown, America has come a long way. In the middle of the nineteenth century American’s were eager to move west. They wanted to see the span of the United States from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. Jefferson was able to double the size of the United States by negotiating with France, which ended up being known as the Louisiana Purchase. Americans saw empty land waiting to be filled. They thought the open land meant opportunity and potential wealth. By moving west, they could share their unique way of government and the freedom it represented. They believed that America would be a great nation.

Westward expansion was a time of successes and failures, a time celebrations and grief, a time full of life and death but in the end it shaped how America is the way is today. Westward expansion was put in action because of the belief of Manifest Destiny, the belief that it is America fate to expand from the Atlantic to Pacific ocean. The economical, political and humanitarians impacts were necessary to achieve the goal of manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion.

The United States began its life as a small nation consisting of only thirteen states. Over time the leaders of this county recognized that in order to prosper the nation would need to expand beyond the current set borders. Westward Expansion was the only solution, to adopt such a large endeavor meant that the population had to have a reason to migrate west. Expansion had appeal to the Southern land owners for the fact that the Missouri Compromise did not affect territories that were not part of the Louisiana Purchase, while those who did not have land moved west with the promises of land of their own to farm and own, yet congress continued to battle over “slave states” and “free states” to keep the balance. Westward expansion had many contributions to make to the Unites States.

The war with Mexico abruptly started with the annexation of Texas. Though the land was originally Mexico’s, the U.S had taken part of the territory in the belief of Manifest Destiny. America thought of it as god’s

Manifest destiny and territorial expansion greatly united the United States from 1830 to 1860. During this time period, America was still developing and growing in many ways. America’s geographical growth, formerly known as Manifest Destiny, or westward expansion, was the beginning of many changes for the nation. Manifest destiny and territorial expansion united the United States socially, politically, and economically.

Westward expansions of the united states molded and affected the nations advancement socially, politically and economically holding quick to its connections to agriculture, its relations with and through slavery with the westward expansion therefore there would not be an abolishment movement and the women would not have been there to find against it. Although the Indian removal has helped shape the westward expansion politically and economically because it has given America more land and cotton. The Mexican war shaped the western expansion culturally and politically because the Mexican were racially religiously superior.

The Westward Expansion was the nation's future as depended on by Thomas Jefferson. In 1803 the Louisiana purchase took place, doubling the size of the country. The Westward Expansion allowed the emigrants of the Oregon trail to expand out west, making the people a new start to a better future. The emigrant’s on the Oregon trail faced the most difficulty trying to survive and thrive in the west due to life threatening diseases, harsh weather patterns, and supply deprivation.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s Americans expanded abroad into other countries and areas. American expansion was unjustified with the barbaric ways that we gained land in one case, and what we did with land in another case.

Territorial expansion impacted national unity socially, economically and politically. As new settlers and immigrants came to America, the need for land grew, forcing people westward. People of different backgrounds migrated and settled among each other, creating new and diverse communities. As the west became more inhabited, the government became involved and decided which states would become slave states and which states would become free states. The new states and territories created more room for political differences among citizens. Economically, it made sense to move westward, where there was more land for farming. Farmers that had more land could grow more cotton and own more slaves which benefited the country greatly.

During the time of 1830, the Americans believed in “manifest destiny”. There was a spike in the population, as cheap and fertile land caught the attention of Americans to take on the hardships of the Overland Trails to Oregon and California. A lot of the Americans from the south ended up migrating to the Mexican part of Texas with their slaves, so that they would be able to grow cotton. But the Mexican government wouldn’t authorize slavery and once 1830 approached, they ended up prohibiting any further immigration. During the conflict between the Texas colonist and the Mexican government, this ended up resulting in the Texas Resolution, in which there became the creation of the separate Republic of Texas in 1836. As the US made it adamant that they were going to try everything in its power to not have a war with Mexico, this was one of the reasons as to why Texas didn’t become a state until another decade.

Westward expansion was a new thing and time in our country and had many impacts on the American people and ways of life. The government made it available to buy a lot more of land in the West. Our government gave opportunities for people to move west for a better life or more land in the west. The government gave opportunities like the homestead act where the government would give families 160 acres of land if they moved west at the time this deal was going on. This act was signed into law by President Lincoln in 1862. People moved west for any opportunity they could. People moved for a new life, more land, and more opportunities in

About 20 years later after the Spanish empire changed their form of “government”, since their government wasn’t well and unstable, it caused international conflict in 1846. Which is the year that this war started. Then Native American raids slowly started settling north when the war started. That prompted the Mexican government to support migration into the United States. The people from Texas rebelled against the Mexican government president/dictator Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana. After gaining independence from Spain, Mexico owned what is now the state of Texas. In order to live on Mexican land you had to follow some laws/rules that the government came up with. You had to be loyal to the government and follow what they say or do, you had to follow the catholicism ways, and they had to stay on the land that you had purchased for 10 years and after 10 years your contract is up. Mexico didn't want slavery on their land. An offer of annexation was agreed upon the Texan people which was offered from the U.S. Congress in 1845. Texas became the 28th state in the United States on December 29, 1845. Also in 1845, James K. Polk became president of the United

Another hazard of travelling west was, coincidently, traveling itself. Travelings by boats meant crowded living quarters, bad hygiene, and old molded food. Surely not very desirable but it had to be done. In the text it was described as “Forty-niners used three routes to travel to California. They could leave from an Atlantic port by ship, sail around Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America (through the Strait of Magellan), and travel up to San Francisco. They could travel overland using horses, mules, or covered wagons (generally walking beside them). Or they could travel on the Atlantic by ship to Panama, cross over the Isthmus of Panama (which connects North and South America), and catch another ship on the Pacific heading north to