The Westward Expansion Was More Fueled by Slavery and Not Manifest Destiny
“In the middle of the nineteenth century, farmers in the “Old West”—the land across the Allegheny Mountains in Pennsylvania—began to hear about the opportunities to be found in the “New West” (Corbett 435). The land was considered useless initially as it was useless before Americans started viewing it as an economic opportunity. Before the mid-19th century, ... Read More
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