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Q: What is the role of westward expansion in American culture? A: The West plays an important role in Americans' sense of who they are.Certainly, the movement west -- since the Puritans landed on ...

Matt Mayberry talked about Zebulon Pike and how the peak that bears his name became a symbol for exploration, the gold rush, settlement,… User Created Clips from This Video May 21, 2014 ...

Historians talked about westward expansion after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the political reasons for traveling west. They also discussed Kit Carson and other mountain men, and the impact ...

Westward Expansion. Telling the History of the U.S. Through Its Territories. ... After years of fierce debate, the West’s greatest symbol will again roam the countryside. November 2018.

The Westward Expansion began with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, which nearly doubled the size of the U.S., and was continued with the Florida Purchase Treaty in 1819.

The westward expansion carried slavery down into the Southwest, into Mississippi, Alabama, crossing the Mississippi River into Louisiana. Finally, by the 1840's, it was pouring into Texas.

Kevin Costner’s The West isn’t the usual retelling of the United States’ western expansion, because it takes the viewpoint that the US settlers were treading on an already-occupied land.

WASHINGTON—The history of America’s westward expansion returned to the Supreme Court Tuesday, when government lawyers argued that Congress abolished the Creek Indian reservation, and thus the ...