WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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The Mississippi River
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The Rocky Mountains
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The Pacific OCean
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The Texan-Mexican Border
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Detailed explanation-1: -Settlers emigrating from the eastern United States were spurred by various motives, among them religious persecution and economic incentives, to move to destinations in the far west via routes including the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails.
Detailed explanation-2: -Many people wanted new land to farm and hunt. They began to move west of the Appalachians. One of the first areas settled was the Northwest Territory. This area today makes up the states of Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Treaty of Paris granted the United States title to an extraordinarily vast expanse of land. The fledgling nation stretched from the sparsely settled Atlantic Coast in the east, to the Mississippi River in the west; from the Great Lakes in the north, to near the Gulf of Mexico in the south.
Detailed explanation-4: -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 had left their homes in the East in search of economic opportunity.