Essays on Westward Expansion

American History: From the Expansion to Urbanization Filled with rich changes and shifts in culture, American history is relatively young but fascinating. From the early dawn of the 19th century where areas west of the Mississippi River were being explored to the growing pains of…

Westward Expansion During the mid-1800s, relocating to the west was a popular movement for American citizens. Many people migrated out west in hopes of a new, better life where they could cultivate their own land and live peacefully. Life on the frontier was trial and…

Native Americans and the American West In 1844, John L. O’Sullivan, editor of the Democratic Review, composed the phrase the “Manifest Destiny” as American westward expansion to the Pacific and cultural superiority of “inferior people.” One group of these “inferior people” were Native Americans, who…