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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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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mountains‚ from Canada to New Orleans‚ completely doubling the size of the U.S. Jefferson believed if the whole country was a good down to earth working class community that it would be the future and uprising of the newly settle country. The Westward expansion is one of the defining themes of the 19th century American history both in positive and destructive ways. By the 1840s‚ 40% of the population of the US lived in the expandetery western territories. They left the east to move to the West to
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Fourteen Public Deep-water Seaports System (Merch‚ 2010‚ p.148-53; Bingham‚ 2007‚ p.17-22). The Proposed Port Expansion The Jacksonville Port project is expected to boost the State of Florida’s competitive advantage in the global market arena‚ catalyze economic growth‚ and enhance the creation of lucrative jobs for citizens in different parts of the state. Anchored on the Panama Canal Expansion Vision 2014‚ the deepening of the port is believed to portend numerous economic advantages owing to the expected
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In the 1800 brave pioneers moved westward. People moved to the west for a number of reasons there was many Fears‚ Benefits‚ and Hazards of moving west.One of the reasons was they wanted land. If the family worked wanted a piece of land they would have to work there for five years‚ then they could own that piece of land. That one of the biggest reasons that people wanted to move to the west. They had to work hard so that they could have the land all to themselves. Benefit means advantage and in
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The author of “There is No True History of Westward Expansion‚” Robert Morgan‚ believes that Westward Expansion was pursued by the common people of America‚ and the government followed the people. This belief is false due to the fact that the American government was the source of the idea of expanding to the West. The American government‚ specifically President Thomas Jefferson‚ was the main push for westward expansion. President Thomas Jefferson aspired for the United States to reach from coast
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discuss the following question. "How did the industrial revolution impact westward expansion". Without the industrial revolution impact on westward expansion we would not have the America we see today. The industrial revolution took place between 1760 and 1840 around the world. The westward expansion took place from 1807 to 1912. Without the industrial revolution‚ westward expansion would have failed. Without the westward expansion America would be very different today but how did this come about. Firstly
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The expansion of America from the thirteen colonies across the entire continent was known as westward expansion. In 1845‚ John O’Sullivan‚ a newspaper editor that was writing about the possible annexation of Texas‚ coined the term Manifest Destiny. “Manifest Destiny…to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions” (Wexler 96). Manifest Destiny inspired a 29-year old named Stephen F. Austin to talk grandly of colonizing the Mexican province
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