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African Americans came from the southeast, Spanish settlers came from Mexico in the south, and workers came from the west, across the Pacific from China. The hope for economic advancement that brought white settlers to the West also brought workers from Asia.
15 Δεκ 2009 · Manifest Destiny. By 1840, nearly 7 million Americans–40 percent of the nation’s population–lived in the trans-Appalachian West. Following a trail blazed by Lewis and Clark, most of these...
Westward movement, the populating by Europeans of the land within the continental boundaries of the mainland United States, a process that began shortly after the first colonial settlements were established along the Atlantic coast. Read more about its history and outcome.
Westward Expansion. A significant push toward the west coast of North America began in the 1810s. It was intensified by the belief in manifest destiny, federally issued Indian removal acts, and economic promise. Pioneers traveled to Oregon and California using a network of trails leading west.
From exodusters to all-black settlements, the essay describes the largely hidden role that African Americans played in western expansion. While white easterners, immigrants, and African Americans were moving west, several hundred thousand Hispanics had already settled in the American Southwest prior to the U.S. government seizing the land ...
From exodusters to all-Black settlements, the essay describes the largely hidden role that African Americans played in western expansion.
What motivated thousands of people to journey west during the 1800s? Was it the prospect of land ownership advertised on a broadside tacked to a tree that convinced a family to pack up all their belongings and travel across a continent in search of a better life?
