The Impact Of Westward Expansion Of The American Revolution

England forbad anyone to settle west. If any of the Colonists were already settled in the west then they are to be removed from their own settlement. The Colonists saw the west as an opportunity to freedom and get away from England. But they aren’t able to settle in the west, because of England. This was called the Proclamation of 1763. The Colonists couldn’t do anything freely without Britain watching them.The Colonists felt their freedom was being violated. Britain told the Colonists to not move to the west because they wanted to make peace with the Indians. England didn’t want the Colonists move west because the the British stronghold is strong in the colonies. The Colonists were not allowed to pass the Appalachian Mountains. All the Colonists saw the west as an opportunity to settle and get away from the British government. The Proclamation of 1763, the Stamp Act ,Tea Act, and the Quartering Act were all intolerable to the Colonists. The Colonists were getting really tired of being bossed around and taxed by England. As tensions grew between England and the Colonists, the American Revolutionary war started. The Colonists fought in this war as hard as they could and won our

Towards the end of the 19th century, the United States of America was undergoing a great amount of territorial growth. The idea of America’s responsibility of westward expansion, or Manifest Destiny, gave America many motives to achieve expansion by any means necessary. The Americans, also known as Anglo Americans, took over land and droved many inhabitants off their own land and into reservations. The main victims of the placement into reservations were Native Americans. The Anglo Americans often times brought with them disease that afflicted the Native Americans. Most of the encounters between the Native Americans and the Anglo Americans escalated to violence. Often times, the violent encounters by the Anglo Americans became massacres

Every nation wants to grow and become more populated, and most perform this by expanding. Expansion is key to gain more population and a greater civilization. Expansion allows nations to find more resources, land to sell, and even space for new businesses. The westward expansion is a great example of how a nation goes through its journey for success. The Westward Expansion mostly revolved around the addition of trains that go through the Great Plains. The nation saw the great plains as a dry wasteland, but soon after they realize the opportunity it offers. (Doc 1) The nation quickly began to build railroads through the plains fighting through many obstacles as best as they could. Soon they run into the Natives, the original inhabitants of the plains that were believed to be bare. Railroad workers start to build through Native land and the Natives do not react to this kindly.

The American Revolution was the first sign that the colonists were going to have extreme political and economical change. After the French and Indian War, British. officials issued the Proclamation line of 1763 which banned the colonist from crossing the Appalachians and traveling west. In order to pay for the French and Indian War, the British had to tax the colonists with the Stamp Act of 1765. This brought up a lot of aggression among the colonist. They rioted, destroyed homes, and harmed government officials that supported this act. Important English colonist saw this as an opportunity to turn colonist aggression towards the British without affecting their own property and break apart from them. In 1765, “steps were taken to keep things under control; a dinner was given for certain

The United States government is powered by one man to make decisions and multiple men to vote on the decisions of the man in power. This method of government has failed many times to protect the rights and needs of the citizens. America has treated the environment badly several times, including during the time of Westward expansion. They neglected to keep the immigrants coming into America safe from discrimination. The government also did not care about what happened to the soldiers that were brave enough to fight during World War I. The proper role of government is to take hold of the responsibility of the country's rights and needs for the citizens of America, as well as the environment.

The United States encouraged settlement in the West during and after the Civil War. The Homestead Act of 1862 gave families up to 160 acres of land if they agreed to live on it for five years. The completion of the railroads to the West following the Civil War opened vast areas of the region to settlement and economic development. White settlers from the East poured across the Mississippi to mine, farm, and ranch. African-American settlers also came West from the Deep South, convinced by promoters of all-black Western towns that prosperity could be found there. Chinese railroad workers further added to the diversity of the region's population.

The United States became a continental nation with the purchase of Louisiana from France in 1803 and the settlement of the lands beyond the Appalachian Mountains. Westward expansion fueled conflict with Native populations and led to their forced removal. By 1820, 2 million Americans lived west of the Appalachians, out of a total national population of 10 million. The regional cultures that had developed along the Atlantic Coast New England, Middle Atlantic, Chesapeake, and Carolinas were transplanted into the Old Northwest, which included; Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin and the Old Southwest which included; Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Tennessee, and Texas. But although Americans had begun to identify themselves as a nation, they were divided by sectional interests that deepened with rapid industrialization and the question of slavery. Americans steadily achieved economic independence from Europe. Rural Americans, once exclusively farmers, began manufacturing, merchants constructed regional market economies, and state governments promoted economic development. Industrialists remade rural villages into burgeoning factory towns such as Lowell, Massachusetts, the center of cotton textile manufacture. However, many textiles continued to be made in individual households and small weaving workshops. Mill owners called upon machines and factory operatives to boost production. Government leaders and entrepreneurs campaigned for the construction of

After the French and Indian War that ended in 1763, the British government imposed the Stamp Act on the American colonies. These, along with the Republican ideology, and the Boston Tea Party, all led to the American Revolution. The French and Indian War marked Britain’s dominance to world power, but the war resulted in a huge debt to the British government. The Englishmen believed that the colonies were just subordinates which could be used and exploited in the best interests of the British government. Britain perceived the colonies as successful entities to help pay its debts. The Parliament imposed taxes on the American colonies to help pay the debts of war and expenses in maintaining the British Empire. However, the colonists protested that they should not be taxed without consent (Washington, 109). The colonists argued that they wanted to elect representatives in the Parliament and have a voice in the decision making on how they were going to be taxed. When the British government ignored the demands of the colonists, this action paved way to the American rebellion and the boycott of British goods. The women in the colonies took part in the revolution by producing “American –made” goods because Americans no longer wanted to patronize and buy from Britain. To compound the situation, the British government passed the Stamp Act and implemented it in the colonies in

In the 1800’s the federal government was furthering their quest for the fulfillment of their “manifest destiny”; trying to inhabit the United States from coast to coast. The federal government took several actions that led to westward expansion. These steps impacted the country and those living in it in both positive and negative ways. Federal government actions such as the homestead act, transcontinental railroad, and movement of native Americans to reservations were just some of the many ways that the actions of the federal government affected U.S. citizens, native Americans, the economy and many other things.

"Men were seized in the fields or going along the road, women were taken from their wheels and children from their play. In many cases, on turning for one last look as they crossed the ridge, they saw their homes in flames, fired by the lawless rabble that followed on the heels of the soldiers to loot and pillage" (James Mooney). This is just one encounter shared by someone who witnessed the treatment of the Natives during the United States' Westward Expansion movement. The treatment of the Native Americans during Westward Expansion was unjustified. No matter the circumstances, the treatment of the Natives was unjustified. The Natives had fewer resources than the U.S. and the U.S. took advantage of that when they shouldn’t have.

While the western United States was growing rapidly, the means on transportation across the great plains was a very long and dangerous trek. With the growing desire for western settlements, the Transcontinental Railroad would offer a much faster and safer means of travel to the western states. The railroad would also be capable of carrying goods to and from the West.

During the westward expansion many important events happened. The Pony express was one of them it was a mail delivery system. Another very important event was the Transcontinental railroad, it was the first train track ever made! Both of these events were very hard to accomplish but we did accomplish them so that was good.

Westward expansion, although simply a pact to move westward caused conflict and anger to Northern and Southerners. This tension rose due to the fugitive slave act, and the Kansas-Nebraska act. In 1845 the phrase manifest destiny was coined. Many Americans assumed it was their God-given-right to spread westward, bringing American culture with them (285). This phrase empowered Americans to move west, however, conflict arose in the conquest of lands such as the annexation of Texas which led to the Mexican-American War, acquiring California and New Mexico. These newly acquired lands led to pressing questions if they would be free or slave states which was a precursor to the climactic fugitive slave act. In 1850 President Taylor enacted the 1850 Compromise. Taylor agreed for California to become a free state under the Union, for New Mexico and Utah to decide if they were free or slave states through popular sovereignty, and the slave trade to be abolished in the District of Columbia (310). However, the fourth and most controversial portion of the 1850 Compromise was the Fugitive Slave Act. This stated that it was Americans moral duty to return escaped slaves to their masters, there was a $10 reward for individuals who returned a fugitive slave, so the number of kidnappers increased leading to escaped slaves to be returned to their masters (310). This caused anger to accumulate among Northerners, Nash states, “In a few dramatic episodes, notably in Boston, literary and

The United States of America officially gained its independence on July 4th, 1776. However, at the time, America only consisted of 13 colonies. The United States was a very small nation and there was desire amongst the people for that to change. The desire for expansion had been in existence since the time period of the Jamestown settlers and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The United States would then begin its westward expansion from 1783 to 1810 with main expansions such as Old Northwest and Southwest, the Louisiana Purchase, and the Florida territory. These key additions to the nation would light a spark in the minds of the American public and would lead to the idea of “Manifest Destiny”. This term is used to describe the territorial expansion of America between the time period in between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. Manifest Destiny is basically the belief that the territorial expansion across the continent was deserved and destined to occur. With this belief in the minds of Americans, the country would continue its growth across the continent through treaties, war, and annexation of land. The Westward Expansion of the United States up until 1860 had a positive effect on the growth of the nation to an extent. The territorial expansion had an effect on the nation politically, economically, and socially.

The westward expansion of the United States of America, also known as manifest destiny occurred between 1783, just after the Revolutionary war ended and lasted towards the end of the Reconstruction era in 1877. There were many foreign polices along with treaties introduced in order to expand the size of the United States, and to acquire or settle in the unknown regions of North America. Some regions were inhabited by other countries and many people compromised their values or belief systems in order to settle all across this continent. The expansion of North America along with the help of the Manifest Destiny movement helped expand and create modern day America.