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THE WESTWARD EXPANSION
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The Westward Expansion Essay
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OPTION B
The president of the United States in the year 1804, Thomas Jefferson, bought the whole
Louisiana territory for $15 million from the French government who were controlling at the
time. The territory stretched all the way to the Rocky Mountains from River Mississippi and all
the way to New Orleans from Canada, this was twice the size of the United States. This was the
start of the western expansion which to Jefferson, it was a gateway to the nation's health. Thomas
Jefferson trusted that a republic relied on upon an autonomous, upright citizenry for its survival
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and that freedom and excellence ran as one with land possession, particularly the responsibility
for ranches. In order for the United States to be able to sustain its economy and manage food
security through the provision of enough land to their citizens, the westward expansion had to be
necessary. This was one of the themes that defined the United States’ history in the 19th century.
By 1840, almost 7 million Americans, constituting to 40% of the country's population lived in
the Trans-Appalachian West. The vast majority of these individuals had left their homes in the
East looking for a financial open door. Like Thomas Jefferson, a large portion of these pioneers
related westward migration, farming and land ownership with a flexibility of life and freedom.
The westward expansion had some economic, political and social impacts on the development of
the United States the formation of the Republic in 1786. The major impacts of the westward
expansion were the political impacts. The first one was the Monroe doctrine which put forward
an arrangement of Manifest Destiny that the United States ought to stretch out from the Atlantic
Coast to the Pacific Coast. In this address, Monroe expressed that the European forces were to
remain out of Western Hemisphere undertakings and that the United States had the privilege to
claim free grounds in the New World. A couple of decades after James Monroe was no longer in
power, the American government officials utilized the Monroe Doctrine in conjunction with the
strategy of Manifest Destiny to legitimize venture into the American West. The individuals who
pushed Manifest Destiny trusted that it was the privilege or "fate" of the United States to traverse
both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. Due to this expansion by the American leaders, it created
other impacts of political crises where Native Americans deposition, the slavery expansion and
the holdings of the public la...