WHAT MADE THE AMERICANS EXPAND
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After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, a large amount of land west of the
original 13 states and the Northwest Territory was acquired. The open land,
additional benefits and other existing problems encouraged Americans to
expand westward. The American people began to realize that the future of ....
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.... than fifty years, from the 1803
purchase of Louisiana Territory to the California gold rush of 1849, the
nation would expand and conquer the West" (Herb 3).
The ocean had always controlled New England's interests and connected it
with the real world. Puritanism was still very strong in the north so the
moral unity of New England was exceptional. Having a very unmixed population
of English origin, New England contrasted very much with the other sections.
All this and the fact th ....
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