Westward Expansion
Nineteenth-Century Americans and Manifest Destiny 1830 - 1853
The economy of the United States grows and so does the nation’s territory as Americans move west. New inventions and technologies fuel the rapid pace. Texas is taken from Mexico, and vast amounts of land in the west are obtained by war. Native Americans and Mexicans suffer the consequences.
The economy of the United States grows and so does the nation’s territory as Americans move west. New inventions and technologies fuel the rapid pace. Texas is taken from Mexico, and vast amounts of land in the west are obtained by war. Native Americans and Mexicans suffer the consequences.