The War and Westward Expansion
The War and Westward Expansion (U.S. National Park Service)
The Federal government responded with measures (Homestead Act, transcontinental railroad) and military campaigns designed to encourage ...
The War and Westward Movement - National Park Service
The goal was to encourage settlement, solidify Union control of the trans-Mississippi West, and further marginalize the physical and cultural presence of ...
Westward Expansion (1801-1861)
Westward expansion began in earnest in 1803. Thomas Jefferson negotiated a treaty with France in which the United States paid France $15 million for the ...
Westward Expansion ‑ Timeline, Events & Facts | HISTORY
Westward expansion, the 19th‑century movement of settlers into the American West, began with the Louisiana Purchase and was fueled by the ...
Slavery and other Domestic Challenges of Western Expansion
Contemporary portrayals of the United States' Westward Expansion often painted the process as the inevitable march of progress.
1830–1860: Diplomacy and Westward Expansion
During this crucial period, the United States pursued a policy of expansion based on “manifest destiny,” the ideology that Americans were in fact destined to ...
Westward Expansion: Encounters at a Cultural Crossroads
In the nineteenth century, the United States expanded its territory westward at a dramatic pace, leading to conflict, national growth, and ongoing cultural ...
Westward movement | Definition, History, Outcome, & Facts
Despite those decades of continuous westward pushing of the frontier line, it was not until the conclusion of the War of 1812 that the westward ...
Westward Expansion and the Coming of the Civil War
Westward Expansion. Page 6. nationalhumanitiescenter.org. 6. All this will be our future history, to establish on earth the moral dignity and salvation of man ...
Westward Expansion and the American Civil War - US History Scene
Westward Expansion and the American Civil War · To many nineteenth-century Americans, the expansion of slavery into western territories caused a great deal of ...
Westward Expansion - HistoryNet
Prior to the war, many settlers in Ohio, the Indiana Territory, and the Illinois Territory had been threatened by Indian raids; following the war, the tribes ...
Westward expansion: economic development (article) | Khan Academy
Just as big business was coming to dominate the factories of eastern cities, so too were powerful corporate interests beginning to elbow out the independent ...
Access to History: America: Civil War & Westward Expansion Sixt
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Westward Expansion and Post-Mexican American War (1830-1850)
The 13-day Battle of the Alamo in 1836 was a pivotal point in Texas' war for independence from Mexico.
American Indians and Westward Expansion
French and English colonies along the Atlantic Coast displaced eastern American Indian tribes who were forced west to compete with existing tribes. The earliest ...
Africans in America/Part 4/Narrative:Westward Expansion - PBS
The westward expansion carried slavery down into the Southwest, into Mississippi, Alabama, crossing the Mississippi River into Louisiana. Finally, by the 1840's ...
America's Westward Expansion and the Road to Civil War
America's truly breathtaking westward expansion has captivated the attention of the nation's citizens since those heady years preceding the Civil. War.
Why the War of 1812 Was a Turning Point for Native Americans
The conflict was their last, best chance for outside military help to protect their homelands from westward expansion.
About the USA > History > Slavery, Civil War and Westward Expansion
The Civil War put an end to slavery; it also made clear that the country was not a collection of semi-independent states but an indivisible whole.
Reasons for Westward Expansion - DocsTeach
Students will examine a variety of documents that reference reasons why Americans living in the East migrated west of the Mississippi immediately before, ...