Migrating West In The 1800's

Americans started migrating west in the 1800’s due to many push and pull factors. Everyone had their own treacherous reason to go. All the people included, white free men and slaves, also the government. No one really knows where it all started, but it could be because of religious ideas such as manifest destiny. Or it could have been because americans just wanted to expand because they thought that, that was their land. From facts that are shown in the US history textbooks, americans wanted to expand but the Mexican government owned Texas. When the americans wanted to ask to move into Texas the Mexican government said no unless they met the Mexican government demands. And so the American government accepted it and, Americans moved into Texas.
The mexicans killed all the men and sent to woman and children back to the US to send a message. The people in Texas fought Spain for there freedom and ended up winning. Texas decided to become a lone star country. After they became a lone country they wanted to become part of the usa. And if the united states did not allow them to become part of the union they decided to threaten them. They said that if the US does not accept them then they are going to become a British colony. This was a smart threat because the US didn't want any problems with Britain. So the US had no other choice but to accept them to the union. This had some controversies because the balanced was tipped. The north was mad because the south had more colonies than the north. This was the begging of the Mexican-American war. The president at the time James K. Polk believed in manifest destiny. A border at rio grande was what had started it all. And throughout the war the US had many victories. As the war was coming to an end Mexico had lost ⅓ of its territory. And that territory is known as California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and New
Marshall discovered some flakes of gold in the sutter's mill a few days after the treaty of guadalupe hidalgo was signed leaving the state california in the hands of the usa. And while Marshall tried to keep the discovery from getting out to the world, it eventually ended up getting out. Most other people had many other different reason on why they wanted to leave or what there goals was. And there were many pull factors too but the most famous one is the California gold rush. When a gold nuggets were found in Sacramento Valley many people from all over would travel far and wide just to go and find some gold in the 1848. By the end of 1849 about 2 million dollars worth of gold was extracted from california and the population had increased from year 1000 to 100,000. The first few people to come where the ones that came by boat such as Peru, Chile, China, Hawaii. The second wave of people were known as the forty niners. Those of which were mostly made of men, they had left it all so they could chase a