American Westward Expansion In The 19th Century

American Westward expansion set the stage for significant social, economic and political changes that echo up until today. Westward Expansion created more land for farmers and settlers, more natural resources for the United States, and built the United States into a major world power. Back to that era, there were many factors that attributed to American’s rapid expansion to the west. First, the idea of “manifest destiny”, that describes the belief that the USA and its people were “destined” to expand westward and conquer this wild land, was adopted by successive political parties. As a result of the belief in manifest density, much of American policy in the late 18th and 19th centuries were focused on rapid expansion and finding ways to annex