Running Head: WESTWARD EXPANSION Westward Expansion and the Effects On the United States October 3‚ 2007 Abstract The Louisiana Purchase was the largest land deal in our history. It doubled the size of the United States and gave us a strong face as an economic power. It brought immigrants from all over the world for the idea of owning land and making a living for themselves. We also had a second expansion with the Adams-Onis treaty in 1819 (Davidson‚ 2002‚ p.p. 246-247) where we
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How did the Westward Expansion Affect Native Americans? The westward expansion affected the Plain Natives greatly. Education and jobs were shifted majorly during the westward movement which led to a completely different way of life. All of a sudden they were introduced to schools‚ when in the past they only learned from experience. They were familiarized to tradesmen jobs and farming‚ when previously it was limited to hunting for men and being a housewife for women. The Plain Indians used to learn
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Dariana Zapata November-18-2014 Expanding West During the 1800s‚ the federal government promoted westward expansion in a variety of ways. This expansions changed the shape and character of the country. The United states first started with very small property back then they were call the 13 colonies which to begin with was not as strong as it is today‚ if anything it was a lot weaker and had little to rely on. Through time it was able to make it ways into gaining
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Child Labor Have you heard of one of the causes of why children and adults died in the late 1800’s and the early 1900’s? Child labor was terrible and needed to be stopped. In the 1800 and 1900’s‚ children were forced to work in factories in America. Child labor was hazardous and awful‚ and many actions were taken to improve working conditions and save the lives of children. In the 1800 and 1900’s‚ working conditions were deadly and cruel. First‚ many kids were working barefoot. They were barefoot
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A principal factor in facilitating westward expansion was the attitude propagated by the government and sold to the citizens of the nation. This attitude of forging a new destiny and seeking economic prosperity at any cost was known as Manifest destiny and served as a justification for Americans to expand regardless of any obstacles in their way. The phrase was coined in the July 1845 Democratic Review article “Annexation” by editor John O’Sullivan‚ who wrote “manifest destiny to overspread the continent
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The Oregon Trail was one of the most prolific and destiny-changing events in American history. The expedition gave way to tremendous changes in terms of exploration and trade‚ acting as a gateway to westward migration and settling the western frontier. The trail stretches roughly 2‚000 miles of rugged terrain from Missouri to Oregon. It can be one of the most overlooked events in the US’s history‚ but regardless‚ it has positively impacted the country’s history. The Oregon Trail was crucial to seeing
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obstacle to the westward expansion. White American settlers petitioned to the federal government to remove the Native Americans. Presidents both Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe argued that Indian tribal lands in the Southeast should sell and/or exchange their land for lands west of the Mississippi River. The American Government did not take any steps to make this happen. In fact‚ the first transfer of land occurred only as an end result of war. The Americans wanted westward expansion to complete their
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From 1800 to 1850 territorial expansion tore the United States apart. Territorial expansion itself was not a debated issue. Spurred by the concept of Manifest Destiny‚ almost everyone believed that America should extend from sea to shining sea and maybe even farther. But it was the issue of the expansion of slavery into the new territories that pitted the North against the South and split our nation apart. The first real crisis over territorial expansion took place in 1819-1821 over the admission
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Christopher "Kit" Carson was a famous American frontiersmen born in Madison County‚ Kentucky on December 24th‚ 1809‚ who made an important contribution to the expansion of The United States of America. Kit Carson became a legend due to his name associated with several key events in the Westward expansion. Exploration‚ Encounter‚ and Exchange‚ Christopher Carson experienced a lot of this during his life. In 1818 Kit Carson’s father Lindsey Carson died due to an incident while clearing a field
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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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