WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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Question
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All the Native Americans had died from disease leaving a completely empty wilderness for Americans to settle.
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Thomas Jefferson’s vision that America would be a country of independent farmers who owned their own property.
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Owning property (land) allows people to rise in social status and vote.
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The United States was too crowded.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The opportunity to work in the cattle industry; to be a “cowboy” Faster travel to the West by railroad; availability of supplies due to the railroad. The opportunity to own land cheaply under the Homestead Act. The discovery of wheat strains adapted to grow in the climate of the Plains.
Detailed explanation-2: -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 Louisiana Territory – 828, 000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River – effectively doubling the size of the young nation.
Detailed explanation-3: -Land and Technology There were many forces that drove Westward Expansion. At this time the U.S. population was growing quickly. Between 1790 and 1860 the US population grew from about 4 million to 21 million! These people crowded the East, and many people began to look West for more space, land, and opportunity.
Detailed explanation-4: -Thousands of people crossed the Rockies to the Oregon Territory, which belonged to Great Britain, and thousands more moved into the Mexican territories of California, New Mexico and Texas. In 1837, American settlers in Texas joined with their Tejano neighbors (Texans of Spanish origin) and won independence from Mexico.