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    pushed into the trans-Mississippi West. Motivation for the expansion west had great impact on the United States. American settlers and business were attracted to western expansion as opportunity came up. Cattlemen‚ miners‚ and railroads had all greatly impacted the United States‚ but of the groups railroads held the most significant impact on the United States and the growth of the nation.     For years wild cattle had wandered the western open range until protein-rich beef was in demand to feed city

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    westward expansion was the key to the nation’s health: He believed that a republic depended on an independent‚ virtuous citizenry for its survival‚ and that independence and virtue went hand in hand with land ownership‚ especially the ownership of small farms. (“Those who labor in the earth‚” he wrote‚ “are the chosen people of God.”) In order to provide enough land to sustain this ideal population of virtuous yeomen‚ the United States would have to continue to expand. The westward expansion of the

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    The expansion of Western Europe started with the Iberian phase. Spain and Portugal‚ the two countries of the Iberian Peninsula‚ had a short-lived yet important role in European expansion. European expansion then turned to Western Europe. Western Europe consists of the Dutch‚ French‚ and British. While Western Europe was exploring new worlds overseas‚ the Russians were expanding westward across all of Eurasia. Religion played a major role in expansion for both the Portuguese and the Spanish due

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    The western expansion was a better life for the American people. The Louisiana purchase changed the united states for the better. People loved the idea that the west provided to them. The United States population had tripled to thirteen million people.(pg.9) Of course it was better for the settlers to move because there was no room for new farmers in the east. Even though settlers were always willing to move where ever there was better land so it wasn’t a big surprise. The settlers did not have any

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    Yuta Ogawa Segal‚ Samantha US History I Honors May 17‚ 2010 Westward Expansion DBQ Manifest Destiny was the belief that the United States of America had the destiny of expanding across North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. This terms meaning has changed and been misused over the years. It was used as a justification for the Mexican War‚ and eventually was led to believe that it was to expand slavery. The main purpose of Manifest Destiny was not to expand the institution of slavery

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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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    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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    Western Expansion’s Contribution to Growing Sectional Tensions between the North and South from 1800 to 1850 G11 Jinpyung Suh ​Once in America‚ there was a time when Eastern South and Eastern North were divided. This division during 1800 to 1850 is one of the important events in American history. There are few reasons for this division such as slavery compromise‚ pursuit of ideal government‚ and also the western expansion. It will make members of the society to be curious why the territorial

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    Public Policy

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    renders  professional  advice‚  and  conducts  Change  Management  and  Management  Development  Programmes  for  Government  departments  and  public agencies to help them implement their reform agenda.  The Finance Department‚ GOAP entrusted the project ‘Framework for Preparation  of  Asset  Register’  to  CGG  under  IDF  grant  for  strengthening  public  financial  management.   The Team   This  Report  on  ʹAsset  Register  Framework  for  Government  of  Andhra  Pradeshʹ  has  been  prepared 

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    Furthermore‚ new territories gained during western expansion added to this conflict between different sections of America. Southern states wanted new slave territories‚ while the North wanted to contain the spread of slavery. While Western expansion contributed to growing sectional tensions between the North and South from 1800-1820‚ sectionalism intensified significantly from 1820-1850. Since the turn of the nineteenth century‚ Western territorial expansion started to increase a sense of sectionalism

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