Jennifer Lopera 04/19/2013 HIST100-970 Western Expansion: Texas and the War with Mexico In the mid-nineteenth century‚ the United States found expansion necessary. Many factors necessitated the increase the countries size. The population of this young country grew from five million to almost twenty-three million‚ and by 1850 almost four million people had migrated westward. Two economic depressions‚ one in 1818 and another in 1839‚ further provoked migration‚ leaving the nation searching for
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1400 European exploration and expansion In the early 1400’s Europe began to expand. This meant that private investors and other governments had to help finance them. This was to create a larger market. The country of Portugal’s need of natural resources became the first reason for European exploration. They were the first country to send out voyagers to the new waters in search of new lands. Portugal did not have sufficient lands to grow crops and was one of the poorer countries in Europe so
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The Expansion of Cultural Diversity in Canada Canada is one of the most desired countries in the world to live‚ agreed upon by it ’s citizens and chosen by more immigrants each year; marketed by its experience with diversity and stressing its selling points such as; its outstanding reputation as being open‚ peaceful and caring‚ its tenants reflect a cultural‚ ethnic‚ and linguistic framework that is found nowhere else in the world. Canadians are one of the most loved individuals in the world.
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Factors that Contributed to expansion? There were reasons for our westward expansion in the 19th century. One reason was our belief in Manifest Destin. Manifest Destiny: Definition The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents Identify the territory of US expansion? ? Gold Rush 1848-49 Facts 1.The discovery of gold nuggets in the Sacramento Valley in early 1848 sparked the Gold Rush 2.A total of $2 billion worth of precious metal was extracted
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Anthony Jones J. King History 171A October 31‚ 1997 WESTWARD EXPANSION The movement of people that has resulted in the settlement of America is one of the most fascinating and significant topics in the history of the United States. Nowhere else has an area of equal size been settled as a result of the initiative of small groups and individuals. Westward expansion helped stimulate the American economy. The first organized migration to California originated in Platte County‚ on the far western
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Western Expansion DBQ Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century‚ many Americans considered the lands west of the Mississippi as the "Great American Desert" and unfit for civilization. However‚ by the mid-1840s‚ migrants from the eastern United States transformed this vast desert into a fruitful land awaiting settlement and civilization known as the frontier. The development of the frontier was the result of the mass population of the many different regions of the far West. These regions
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If expansion is the true American ideal‚ the western frontier is the impetus and manifest destiny is the justification. This is Americanism at its purest: expansion across and improvement of the lands. The frontier represents an escape from urban life and directly supports Jefferson’s agrarian vision for the American economy. The agrarian myth holds that the most desirable type of society is one with an economy strongly rooted in farming. The myth suggests that a farming lifestyle is a pure one
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place in the 1890s‚ analyzing the similarities and differences in the debates of the two eras. The 1840s and 1890s saw an expansion of American territory‚ as a result of several economic‚ political‚ and cultural factors. The expansionist movements of the 1840s and 1890s were similar in their justifications‚ but the arguments against each differed greatly. Both expansion movements used virtually identical justifications for acquiring lands‚ but the conditions were radically different. - manifest
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Some thought all this expansion was unjustified. Others thought just the opposite. American Expansion was however‚ clearly justified. We were helping our foreign allies to become stronger nations. Just as Theodore Roosevelt said “ All that this country desires is to see the neighboring countries stable‚ orderly
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Expansion. By 1815‚ the United States was beginning to grow further and further west. Settlers were making their way through the Ohio River Valley‚ the Trans-Mississippi west‚ and into portions of the Louisiana Purchase territory. By the time Mexico had gained its independence from Spain‚ American settlers were already on the border of the new nation. The individual reasons for expansion are numerous but we know settlers wanted vast amounts of land (farmlands)‚ and they wanted to explore – making
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