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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.
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 people...
The documents in this set can be used to help students explore westward expansion of the United States and the resulting interactions among the West’s many cultural groups. Students could imagine that they are settlers from the East or Midwest, journeying to the West to start a new home.
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.
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 ...
13 Ιουλ 2024 · Oregon Trail - Pioneers, Migration, Westward: Estimates of how many emigrants made the trek westward on the Oregon Trail vary. Perhaps some 300,000 to 400,000 people used it during its heyday from the mid-1840s to the late 1860s, and possibly a half million traversed it overall, covering an average of 15 to 20 miles (24 to 32 km) per day; most ...
Hundreds of thousands of people traveled west on the Oregon, California, and Santa Fe Trails, but their numbers did not ensure their safety. Illness, starvation, and other dangers—both real and imagined— made survival hard.
