"There shall be sung another golden age," prophesied the poet George Berkeley in 1752, "westward the course of empire takes its way." With the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, and subsequent explorations by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Stephen Long,...

As citizens of the United States and immigrants migrated westward in the first half of the nineteenth century, they brought to new communities and states educational experiments and plans that had first taken shape in Europe and the Eastern states....

Following the American Revolution, Americans swarmed to the West. Kentucky and Tennessee provided the beachhead for the vanguard of land-hungry settlers. After the War of 1812 subsequent waves of pioneers flowed into the Ohio River valley, the Great...

At the time of the founding of the United States diverse peoples with varying languages, religions, and levels of technology lived across the breadth of North America. On the Eastern seaboard, the former English colonists struggled with their new...

This is a simplified list of United States territorial acquisitions, beginning with American independence. Note that this list primarily concerns land acquired from other nation-states; the numerous territorial acquisitions from American Indians are not...

Document based question pertaining to American expansionism.

Between the 1840's and 1890's, many Americans moved west beyond the Mississippi River. The ability to own land was a great draw for many people but there were other reasons as well. However, the main reason was the Homestead Act of 1862. This allowed western settlers to obtain 160 acres of land for free as long as they built a home, worked the land, and actually lived on it. There were also other acts passed that added on to the Homestead Act. The Timber Culture Act in 1873 allowed for an extra 160 acres if

Discusses American post Civil War expansion. Describes the challenges of the frontier and the plight of the poor, which drove the movement westward.