African American Territorial Expansion 19th Century

During the nineteenth century Americans saw a new opportunity of new possessions. “Instead of treading outlying areas as colonial outposts, American nation state builders turned them into new provinces” (Pollard et al, 2015, p. 609). With rifles, railroads, schools, frontiers and land surveys the North and South American societies were able to expand. The United States territorial expansion provided a means of unifying the country as well as bringing prosperity to the white farmer. Even though it still brought conflict with Mexico and Britain. After the civil war it actually led to the citizenship rights of African American people and an increase power of the national government. It also brought growth towards new technology that accelerated agricultural and industrial output.
Canada was also able to build a new nation and enjoy economic success. Just like the United States they had access to a vast frontier prairie for growing agricultural exports in which those lands become the homes and farms of European immigrants. Canadian’s French speaking population wanted to keep their culture and language and were not really happy to join the English world. “Canadians used territorial expansion to build an integrated state.” (Pollard et al, 2015, P. 612). In the “U.S and Canada expansion did not always create homesteader frontiers that could help expand democracy and forge national identities.” (Pollard et al, 2015, PP. 612-613). Brazil is known as an exclusive state. “As in the U.S, elites imposed severe restrictions on suffrage and set rules that reduced political competition”. Because of Brazil’s black population there restrictions excluded a larger share of the potential electorate than the United States. Just like the United States and Canada, Brazil’s state extended its reach to distant areas and incorporated them as