Westward_Expansion

Westward Expansion ¡§Examine the reasons of the territorial expansion in the first half of the 19th Century¡¨ ¡§ Almost all people have, at one stage or another in their history felt and expressed the need to extend their territory and also to explain and justify their need both to the world and to themselves.¡¨ When North America was first being colonised in the early 17th century, the settlers made their home along the coasts of the ocean and the shores of the nearby rivers. Nevertheless, as the population kept growing, adventurers, trappers and many mores, started to move west, farther from waterways and from the Atlantic coast. Early westward expansion began¡K However, it is in the first half of the 19th century that the United Sates gained most of its lands, sometimes buying them to their original owners, sometimes simply stealing them (There were actually 13 cases of land annexation during this century). We can thus wonder why the USA needed to enlarge its country so dramatically and will therefore analyse the reasons of this territorial expansion. Though it is clear that a large number of political reasons actually led to the annexation of a few western territories, we will rather concentrate on american, expansion, people, indeed, destiny, west, territorial, country, usa, population, new, manifest, lands, land, growth, great, first, united, century, britain, believed, texas, reasons, north, mexico, growing, 19th, throughout, territories, settlers, right, result, republic, own