In Robert Morgan’s book, “Lions of the West”, it explains the journey of moving and life in
the west starting with Thomas Jefferson’s birth through Westward Expansion to the Indian Wars
of the west. Morgan also talks about how Jefferson wasn’t the only person to push Westward
Expansion to what it is today; sure some politicians and others like Andrew Jackson, James K.
Polk, and Sam Houston all contributed to the push for Westward Expansion.
Jackson’s push to Westward Expansion was on the Trail of Tears. The Trail of Tears was
Jackson’s Indian removal policy to push the Cherokee nation east of the Mississippi River to
present day Oklahoma. James K. Polk and Sam Houston was both apart of the same conflict on
the Mexican - …show more content…
Houston was first lieutenant during the war and won the state of Texas in the
fight. All three of these men did what they had to do to win over the land in the west. The United
States wouldn’t be the way it is today without the men like Jackson, Polk, Houston, and Etc but
there were other people that were involved in Westward Expansion that are hardly mentioned in
books today.
the books being read today, these people made west of what it was back in the old days.
Average ordinary citizens from the east of North America started to move out west because of
new life and farming. Some people wanted to escape the city life and wanted their own land that
they call home. This brings to mind about American Progress and how some people supported or
didn’t support Westward Expansion because of the killing of the buffalo, the driving out of the
Native Americans, and how it was God’s divine right to move out on someone’s land. An
example from that would be about “Chief Joseph Speaks” speech and the Native Americans
standpoint with the way Chief Joseph’s People and other Native Americans weren’t treated
fairly, taking there land, and being mistreated from white people. The same goes for “The Way
the west starting with Thomas Jefferson’s birth through Westward Expansion to the Indian Wars
of the west. Morgan also talks about how Jefferson wasn’t the only person to push Westward
Expansion to what it is today; sure some politicians and others like Andrew Jackson, James K.
Polk, and Sam Houston all contributed to the push for Westward Expansion.
Jackson’s push to Westward Expansion was on the Trail of Tears. The Trail of Tears was
Jackson’s Indian removal policy to push the Cherokee nation east of the Mississippi River to
present day Oklahoma. James K. Polk and Sam Houston was both apart of the same conflict on
the Mexican - …show more content…
Houston was first lieutenant during the war and won the state of Texas in the
fight. All three of these men did what they had to do to win over the land in the west. The United
States wouldn’t be the way it is today without the men like Jackson, Polk, Houston, and Etc but
there were other people that were involved in Westward Expansion that are hardly mentioned in
books today.
the books being read today, these people made west of what it was back in the old days.
Average ordinary citizens from the east of North America started to move out west because of
new life and farming. Some people wanted to escape the city life and wanted their own land that
they call home. This brings to mind about American Progress and how some people supported or
didn’t support Westward Expansion because of the killing of the buffalo, the driving out of the
Native Americans, and how it was God’s divine right to move out on someone’s land. An
example from that would be about “Chief Joseph Speaks” speech and the Native Americans
standpoint with the way Chief Joseph’s People and other Native Americans weren’t treated
fairly, taking there land, and being mistreated from white people. The same goes for “The Way