HOW DID THE WESTWARD MOVEMENT TRANSFORM AMERICA?
American Westward Movement is the process that people from the settled regions of the United States to lands farther west. The great west means stretching from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, and it was subdivided into two sections: the territory between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains and the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific coast. This westward movement, across what was often called the American frontier, was of enormous significance and it lasted about 100 years. It’s a space and time-spanning. By expanding the nation’s borders to include more than three million square miles, the United States became one of the most powerful nations of the 20th century. However, this expansion also resulted in great suffering, destruction, and cultural loss for the Native Americans of North America.
1. economic respect
English established its first Atlantic colonies in Virginia at Jamestown in1607 and in Massachusetts. …show more content…
The frontier was home to dozens of colonies looking for freedom, religious and otherwise. Those first Atlantic colonies also illustrated the contradictory roles that government played in westward expansion. The Puritans settled in Massachusetts with the permission, and sometimes the protection, of the same government whose policies they were trying to escape. Governments, first England and then the United States, always encouraged movement westward in a variety ways. These governments bought or seized land from others and gave it away or sold it cheaply to emigrants. The government used their military to protect settlers and financed developments, such as transportation, that made settlement easier. People heading west came to expect the government’s aid and
American Westward Movement is the process that people from the settled regions of the United States to lands farther west. The great west means stretching from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, and it was subdivided into two sections: the territory between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains and the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific coast. This westward movement, across what was often called the American frontier, was of enormous significance and it lasted about 100 years. It’s a space and time-spanning. By expanding the nation’s borders to include more than three million square miles, the United States became one of the most powerful nations of the 20th century. However, this expansion also resulted in great suffering, destruction, and cultural loss for the Native Americans of North America.
1. economic respect
English established its first Atlantic colonies in Virginia at Jamestown in1607 and in Massachusetts. …show more content…
The frontier was home to dozens of colonies looking for freedom, religious and otherwise. Those first Atlantic colonies also illustrated the contradictory roles that government played in westward expansion. The Puritans settled in Massachusetts with the permission, and sometimes the protection, of the same government whose policies they were trying to escape. Governments, first England and then the United States, always encouraged movement westward in a variety ways. These governments bought or seized land from others and gave it away or sold it cheaply to emigrants. The government used their military to protect settlers and financed developments, such as transportation, that made settlement easier. People heading west came to expect the government’s aid and