Period:3/us history February 26‚ 2013 How did westward expansion transform the nation? In the early 1800’s‚ Americans pushed steadily westward‚ moving even beyond the territory of the United States. They traveled by canoe and flatboat‚ on horseback‚ and by wagon train. Some even walked much of the way. American merchant John Jacob Astor created one of the largest fur businesses‚ the American Fur Company. His company bought skins from western mountain men. These adventurers were some
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The United States has always been a country of expansion; from the time when Colonists wanted to live past the Appalachian Mountains to the time when we expanded to Alaska‚ Hawaii‚ and the Caribbean Islands. Throughout our time as an independent nation‚ our methods of expansion have both changed in drastic measure and followed the processes we used for Westward Expansion. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries‚ the expansion of the United States continued as it had in the past and
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Throughout history‚ expansion was a common action for a country. The United States was growing at a considerable rate‚ making it was understandable to want to obtain more land. The issue how they went about obtaining it. Thomas Jefferson had two men‚ Lewis and Clark‚ travel west of the states to find a trade route and explore the land to see if the nation could expand. He‚ along with Andrew Jackson‚ showed that westward expansion is needed because the land helps support people by providing resources
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The Impact of Disease on Native American Culture Though warfare and attacks on entire villages took a definite toll on the populations of Native Americans‚ disease was by far the biggest killer. We’ve all heard the stories of smallpox infected blankets being given to the Native Americans‚ and other such atrocities‚ but I was simply dumbfounded at the actual numbers of dead due to Old World diseases being introduced to the New World‚ North America. While it has been somewhat difficult for scholars
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AP US History DBQ: Native Americans-White Relations‚ 1800-1850 In the time period of 1800-1850 white Americans expanded across the vast lands on the western side of the continent and regularly encountered conflict with various Indian nations. In these documents‚ interactions for the various Indian nations were subjected to different cultivation between each tribe per say that there were responses that filled different needs and demands. Some tribes provided benefits such as agriculture and household
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talks about the process of the westward expansion and what happened behind closed curtains. Morgan shows how westward expansion was very good for America and helped us get more land. I agree that westward expansion helped america in many ways‚ but I do not agree with the way that the people in charge handled taking care of the indians. In the book‚ “Undaunted Courage” by Stephen A. Ambrose talks about how Thomas Jefferson was the main reason for westward expansion. However‚ in Morgan’s article‚
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Jefferson really wanted to move westward and begin to gain all of that land. He was willing to work with the Indians but‚ they did not want to work with him. They had one way of viewing what they had and the way that they were suppose to live. That was to have as much land as possible so that they could hunt and properly provide for the tribe. Jefferson had the solution of trying to expand their thinking. He wanted to teach them how to be farms and grow things. They did not need all of that land
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The extent to which western expansion affected the lives of Native Americans is extreme. The natives weren’t made aware of the damage that was going to be caused by western expansion‚ they were essentially forced to comply‚ and the United States didn’t express the care for the native people that they should’ve humanely expressed. These points carry evidence in the form of documents‚ and will be elaborated in this essay. When the whites of the United States began preaching of their “manifest destiny”
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of Americans. As much as the Great Depression caused suffering for white Americans‚ the hardships shyrocketed for racial minorities‚ including African Americans‚ Mexican Americans‚ Native Americans‚ and Asian Americans. In 1933 the general unemployment rate in the United States was over 25 percent. At the same time‚ unemployment rates for various American minorities ranged up to 50 percent or more. No group was harder hit than African Americans. By 1932‚ approximately half of black Americans experienced
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Westward expansion The California gold rush began 24 January 1848 because James W Marshall found gold in Sutters Mill‚ Coloma. The owner of the mill‚ John Sutter‚ wanted to keep it quiet about the discovery. But rumours spread and it came 300 000 people from the rest of the United States and tens of thousands from Latin America‚ Australia‚ Europe and China. It was not easy to get to California and many people died on the way. The immigrants were later called forty-niners and came to California
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