Essay On Westward Expansion

In history many things had happened that we are educated on till this day and each of those events are very important to our lives today and it is what makes us who we are as a country today. One of the events that is quite interesting is the Westward Expansion (1787- 1869) which happened before 1877. The Westward Expansion had its ups and downs throughout the years.
What exactly is the Westward Expansion? Well what it is that after the American revolution the pioneers started moving west. This was set up by wars, buying land, and the movement of the Native American Indians. On how quick this settlement of the territories was gained during this development of the Westward Expansion. Made the transportation systems like roads, canals, also the railroads the belief in Manifest

Destiny. People were moving everywhere and whenever just like they were exploring their ways and decided to move themselves west. But a reason would be opportunities in land ownership. Another one would be technological advances which that includes the railroad. Also exploring to many places was a big thing because that helped the people find interesting things. Additionally, it was a new start for the freed slaves. Which the slaves that were free from their owner could afford land but they still worked like slaves but were not owned, and this gave them an advantage to raise crops and animals on the property they owned. The Westward Expansion was not just in one area it was all over the country which because of this they made a map and that helped this idea achievable. The map included 1783 Treaty of Paris which is the war of independence (1775- 1783) and it establishes the U.S boundaries, 1803 Louisiana Purchase was a big part of land that doubled the country. Thomas Jefferson bought this land from France which was a big profit., 1818 Treaty of 49th parallel is where Britain and the U.S came to terms of the 49th parallel on the north part of the Louisiana territory. 1819 Florida Treaty was allowing the U.S purchase the area from Spain. 1842 Webster- Ashburton Treaty was where it was fixing the issues on the borders between the U.S and the British North American colonies, 1845 Texas Annexation was where the republic of Texas was included and was introduce to the union as the 28th state, 1846 Oregon Treaty was a treaty between the United States and United Kingdom and to agree on edges between the United States and Canada , 1848 Mexican Cession was where it eventually transferred to the United States, 1853 Gadsden Purchase was an agreement between Mexico and the United States where the U.S offered to pay them ten million of certain amount of miles of land then eventually that land became Arizona and New Mexico.
On the Westward Expansion many people were involved during this issue. There was important people during this time that we will remember. For example, Jefferson which was the president at the time asked Lewis and Clark to explore the Louisiana territory. Which they were famous people to explore the unknown and come up with a solution to trade with the Natives and to cross the area what is now known as the west. Another person would be James K Polk he was a president (1845- 1849) and he overlooked the annexation of Oregon and was a big believer on expansion.
But why was the Westward Expansion needed?

Just like everything in history there was plenty of reasons for why everything happened. But the Westward expansion reasons were because the whole country had areas to be explored and tested out. Like to figure out how the climates were in the North, West, East, and South. Also how it was on eating sources and how the soil was like growing crops was it beneficial for them. And animals in the areas for them to hunt how many of the animals were helpful to their everyday lives. Resources was another thing they needed to discover to help with the way they lived and for money reasons like trading with each other to help others out even though there was some of them that did not get along. Furthermore, it helped the American settlers discover lands and find opportunities on the piece of land and help them become who they were like rich poor or in the middle class. Another thing it let the Americans live the “American Dream” which was freedom in things and prosperity and succeed and achieve what they wanted after hard work was put into what they were shooting for. So that is why they wanted to move westward for many opportunity reasons good and

bad.
What happened when the westward expansion ended was that the nation was arguing over slavery. But this issue also did eventually lead to the Civil war which that slowed the settlers from moving places around the areas. Furthermore, when the west was completed the United States was formed by all the 48 states, so it brought everything together at the end.