How Did The United States Get Its Destiny To Move West

It wasn't destiny to move west But it was necessary for the success of the United States. At the beginning of the 19 century the United States was plagued with overpopulation, slow transportation and the slave problem, Some people might say that it wasn't necessary to move west and that the United States had no right to do what they did by taking the opportunity that they saw in the land. The united states was more genious than most paying for most of the land they had gotten by buying the louisiana purchase and the land taken in the American Mexican war.
For there to be a destiny to move west, there must be a way to reach that it. That way is through new technologies such as the steam engine and steam ship. With many people wanting to move west, the United States was faced with a problem on how to get people and supplies there faster and so the steamship and steam engine became the new way for transportation “ George Stephenson’s Steam Locomotive and Railroad Cars of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 1826” a picture showing the newest
Essentially there was too many people that moved into the nation. At the beginning of the united states it was plagued with a problem, to many people were immigrating to the nation according to “America's population growth” which is a picture that shows the years and the population of those years. America's population grew from seventeen million in 1840 to twenty-three million in 1850, 35% increase in only ten Years which lead to over populated cities in the east which is shown on a map of “ America's population density of 1820” which shows the map of Americas territory and the density of the population. It shows that most of the territory was dense with eighteen-forty-nine people per square mile and the cities at ninety or above people per square mile. The only way to get rid of the problem was to get more land in the