The Expansion Of The West

Was Expansion to The West a Cause For Great Suffering or Great Benefit? Expansion to the West had many problems. However, it also had many benefits. Many thought expanding to the West was bad thing. There were many deaths, wars, long travels and broken promises. But the land that we gained and the image we created was definitely worth it. The land we gained helped us to grow our economy, attract new settlers, allow a more comfortable living style, gave us luxuries, helped us to become stronger

the westward expansion in the West is still evident today. Influences such as land, and the individualist mindset remain the same today. Also, a lot of ways the frontier land today is isolated compared to the West we live in today, too. The frontier emphasized the spirit of nationalism and individualism in the United States. As mentioned amongst the themes of the West, the frontier experience converted settlers into individualists, who hoped to gain opportunity in the lands of the West. The ample

America expanded away from the east coast, across the Mississippi westward. After many western states joined the Union, hundreds of thousands of pioneers migrated to the new territories, which shifted the majority of the country’s population to the West. With so much uninhabited and unorganized land available, the desire for more land brought aspiring pioneers to the frontier. As enticing as the idea was, something else was persuading many people to migrate westward. Manifest Destiny became a widely

raise cotton, the settlers pressured the federal government to acquire Indian territory. Andrew Jackson fervently believed that the key to American greatness was the small self-employed farmers and in order to continue this greatness, the expansion to the west was imperative so that each new generation could have farms of their own which made him a forceful proponent of Indian removal. In 1814 he commanded the U.S. military forces that defeated a faction of the Creek nation. In their defeat, the

The West prior to and after the Civil War was largely unpopulated by the white man, the Indians, as a result, dominated the landscape mostly undisturbed. However, this separation came to a halt as legion of white pioneers invaded the great plains, displacing the Indians and “civilizing” the West. With tensions rising, the government attempted to make treaties that gave the Indians designated areas to live. What the government failed to realize was that there wasn’t a primary Indian hierarchy and

of life or would it be transformed into a place of equality where all Americans would be welcome, no matter their race? The transformation of the southern states and its inability to produce a stable way of life would promote the expansion of America to the west. The west offered a promise, a fresh perspective to life that both whites and blacks deeply desired. The available, cheap land up for grabs, the promise of riches,

motive for the expansion westward can be viewed as positive, the intent to “civilize” the “uncivilized” groups of the west including the Native Americans, however, was far from moral or just. The frontier was a means of enlarging the economy by creating new communities and an American historical landmark because of the amount of American citizens migrating westward with hopes of new opportunities, however, the frontier also brought unethical treatment of native western groups. The expansion westward

The westward expansion of the Old West impacted and changed, for better or for worse, the lives of many Native American tribes and individuals along with the settlers and those who remained back east. The settlement of the Anglo-Americans in the West influenced the lives of the Native Americans living there throughout the spread of foreign food and crops, disease, culture, animals, and ways to live. The settlers and Native Americans both influenced each other greatly, positively as well as negatively

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the land to its west was inhabited by various Native American tribes, brave pioneers and scattered settlers. This land was awesome in its size while equally vast in opportunity. By 1890, the west and the “American frontier” became essentially, non-existent in comparison to what it previously was. Prior to and through the Civil War, Reconstruction period and the years that followed; the west became engulfed and consumed by American expansion from coast to coast. The American west, was at one point