Imperial Ambition Even Response Needed

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“Eyes on the West” Please respond to the following in a minimum 200 word post. Be sure to comment (minimum of 150 words) on a classmate’s post

• ONLY USE THE WEBTEXT AND COURSE MATERIALS FOR THIS DISCUSSION--NO OUTSIDE SOURCES, NO OPINIONS!

• Before the American Revolution, England had prohibited colonists from migrating westward beyond the Appalachian Mountains. Explore this week’s Webtext materials; then, discuss five (5) factors that led to further westward expansion. Select two (2) of the five (5) factors you previously stated that you believe were most significant in getting Americans to migrate west. Include emerging federal government policies that were a cause and a result of westward expansion.

Hi Prof. and Class,

In our webtext “John Gast’s” American Progress, it
depicts an impage of “the white, blonde figure of Columbia.” A historical
personification of the United States, “strides triumphantly westward with the
Star of Empire on her head bringing education, (see the schoolbook) and modern
technology, see the telegraph wire.” There were many other factors too, like
New opportunities – mining and the gold rush,new canals, railroads, and roads,
that made it easy to transport supplies and to acquire cheap land, which
led to white settlers west, to chase the natives Indians off there land. The
song “This land is your land, Woody Guthrie” just popped in my head.

To further explain the expansion westward, an idea that John
L. O’Sullivan came up with “Manifest Destiny” to extend American democracy to
the rest of the continent. O’Sullivan was trying to defend the American
claim to Texas and he mentioned that it was the United States destiny to
overspread the continent because “God” created the U.S. for this purpose. But
in all reality this justification did not exempt them from being seen as a
“cluster of flimsy rationalizations for naked greed and imperial ambition.”
Even Ulysses Grant was too much of a coward to call it for what it was at the
time, however, he knew it was deplorable in is heart.

Another factor was the Transportation Revolution. The United
States was referred to as a “go-head nation” and “go-ahead
people” with the locomotive as a symbol. The railroad became a metaphor
for American ingenuity and development. (Progress) New technologies, including
steamships and railroads, roads, canals and turnpikes. The federal government
funded this important artery to the West, beginning the creation of a
transportation infrastructure for the benefit of settlers and farmers.

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