WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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The US moving across the Mississippi River toward the Pacific ocean into lands already held by other cultures.
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The US moving across the Mississippi River toward the Pacific ocean into unclaimed lands with very few people living there.
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The US making allies with Mexico and Native Americans groups who lived across the Mississippi River.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Manifest Destiny, a phrase coined in 1845, is the idea that the United States is destined-by God, its advocates believed-to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -By 1860, more than one-half of the American population was located west of the Appalachian Mountains. . . . The Mississippi River and its tributaries provided a natural highway for western commerce. . . . [Steamboats stimulated the agricultural economy of the west by providing better access to markets at a lower cost.