Western Expansion

Travelers, settlers, farmers, ranchers, and those working in the railroad are all those who travel to the west. African American settlers came home and called themselves a birth. There are African American and Hispanic cowboys. There are Chinese workers in the railroad. The Western Region is established through emerging cities of mining, farmers, ranchers, and new continental transit railroads.

We will provide products and services to customers more quickly from factories and farms. It makes it easier for new immigrants to travel to the west. It helps many towns grow. Send mail via train and telegraph line

Expansion to the West In the 1800s American crowds packed their luggage and headed west toward a new unknown United States of America. Expansion of Europe and the United States is an important part of American economic growth. American people can stabilize the new land, expand the economy and make America the world's great country. Newspaper editor John O'Sullivan said he wrote "the desire for expansion expands and possesses the apparent fate of the entire continent." Introduction

The era of expansion in the west mainly refers to the period after purchase of Louisiana in 1803. The expansion of the west includes the land acquired through the convention on the western side of the Mississippi River or through war. For the war with Mexico (1846 - 1848), the United States increased its land from the Southwest Texas, including California, to the Pacific Ocean. Nebraska State, Kansas State, Dakota State are not considered today Western countries, but most of the land between white settlers and American Indians, and much of the heat and herd drives occur in these states doing. War and the expansion of the west side are closely related. This expansion is a form of continental imperialism, not only created a symbol of contemporary culture such as pioneers, cowboy, homestead family, but also strengthened the identity of Americans.

The relationship between slavery and Western expansion is a complex relationship. In more than one sense, slavery (more precisely, the desire to grow cotton using enslaved people) is the driving force for the expansion of the west side. The historian calls it "an old" southwestern region from the western part of Georgia to the east of Texas. "This area, known as the" black belt ", cotton for its dark and fertile soil It is very suitable for cultivation and thousands of people gathered in this area, bringing slaves and removing the sudden demand of cotton. . This wave of Western immigrants continued from the 1820s to the 1840s, with the growth of domestic slave trade, at least 1 million African Americans parted from their families, sold from Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina. . Deep South. In a sense, however, enlarging slavery in the US is an extension to the West.