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What caused westward expansion in the United States?
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| February 28, 2008
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Posted on 02/28/2008 3:21:48 PM PST by decimon
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To: decimon; Ditter; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Larry Lucido; Diplomat; ...
Re Ditter's:
My ancestors started their westward trek before the Revolutionary War and didnt stop until they found Texas in the 1820s.
& decimon's:
Not to be smartarsed but just factual, it sounds as though they kept moving out of what was the United States. Maybe it is because I am a 4th generation Native Texan... but I can not find any blame with Ditter's ancestors or mine?
Flame away, Texashaters. You always do.
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posted on
02/28/2008 4:10:20 PM PST
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: BooBoo1000
My family hates gold. We prefer dirt. My family owns a lot of dirt and dirt is gold.
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posted on
02/28/2008 4:11:23 PM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
To: uglybiker
That facist prick Jefferson sent the lead scouts (Lewis and Clark) of the soon to follow army of invaders whose sole purpose was to deprive the natives of their 500 square mile per family legacy. Jefferson was a racist and an imperialist and, and, and white! < /sarc > just in case.
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posted on
02/28/2008 4:12:45 PM PST
by
j_tull
(Massachusetts, the Gay State. Once leader of the American Revolution, now leading its demise.)
To: Bender2
LOL! They are just jealous of our fabulous heritage.
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posted on
02/28/2008 4:12:45 PM PST
by
Ditter
To: bert
There ware lots of reasonsNo argument from me as there are always multiple reason for grand events. But this research attempts to discover what were the primary reasons for great numbers of people to move west. Or maybe it's better to say what enabled great numbers of people to move west.
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posted on
02/28/2008 4:12:47 PM PST
by
decimon
To: SGCOS
"What caused westward expansion in the United States?Massachusetts
To: Bender2
Maybe it is because I am a 4th generation Native Texan...but I can not find any blame with Ditter's ancestors or mine?Well, that hasn't been in this thread so I don't know why you are begging it.
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posted on
02/28/2008 4:15:48 PM PST
by
decimon
To: JustaDumbBlonde
I think yee struck the nail on the head.
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posted on
02/28/2008 4:16:20 PM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(I voted Republican because no Conservatives were running.)
To: decimon
She makes this very complicated. The real answer is land, Land, LAND!
All you need to know cane be found by asking genealogists why the west expanded so rapidly.
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posted on
02/28/2008 4:18:59 PM PST
by
Gumdrop
To: decimon
I again recommend.... Read the book.... it is heavily researched and offers the primary reasons in extreme detail.
It was a process, not an event
(Some say the first chapters are pretty intense, but it gets much better as you get into it)
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posted on
02/28/2008 4:19:21 PM PST
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. +12 . Never say never (there'll be a VP you'll like))
To: bert
You’re right, as many reasons as there were families. Some in my grandmother’s family just kept moving west, first to central PA, then some to Ohio, and then to Walla Walla, WA in 1860, for the cheap land, full of the old pioneering spirit. I think that we call them risk takers, now.
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posted on
02/28/2008 4:21:32 PM PST
by
Eva
(Benedict Arnold was a war hero, too.)
To: decimon
And that life in major eastern cities simply, to borrow a word from the vernacular of today’s youth, megasucked.
To: decimon
The real reason is all the really hot women were willing to travel west and their mothers would stay put.
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posted on
02/28/2008 4:23:15 PM PST
by
Raycpa
To: decimon
About the University of Southern California: Established in 1880, the University of Southern California is one of the worlds leading private research universities and the oldest private research university in the western United States. Most recently it is best known for a football team that routinely kicks the butt of other renowned institutions, and almost surely will be ranked #1 in the intial polls coming out late this summer.Fixed that.
Now what's this about a computer simulation about moving to California? It's probably because nobody wanted to stop in Nevada.
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posted on
02/28/2008 4:23:54 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: passionfruit
Civil war vets were offered land out West. That is how some of my people wound up in the Washington Territory.
That is part of the answer. Carpet baggers taxed southern land owners out of existence so they went west where taxes were cheaper than the land.
To: decimon
I think the cause if western expansion was that we started in the east.
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posted on
02/28/2008 4:28:04 PM PST
by
A CA Guy
( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: uglybiker
Y’all got it wrong!
The Indians sent out their invitations for the Grand Opening of their casinos just a tad bit early!
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posted on
02/28/2008 4:29:32 PM PST
by
JDoutrider
(No 2nd Amendment... Know Tyranny)
To: Bender2
Having spent a four years living in Oklahoma all I can say is it had to happen sooner or later.
Huh, never thought about ghat..
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posted on
02/28/2008 4:33:17 PM PST
by
big'ol_freeper
(REAGAN: "..party..must represent certain fundamental beliefs [not] compromised..[for] expediency")
To: SGCOS
New York, child labor, the tightly controlled social stratification of European and English society propelled thousands to risk life and limb rather than live as low caste peons.
Why don't the intellectuals look at the social controls, the 'uptight' lifestyles of the rich and famous? The reality of the dominance of the blue bloods over the masses is forgotten history.
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posted on
02/28/2008 4:38:53 PM PST
by
x_plus_one
(Trust in God but keep your powder dry... --Oliver Cromwell)
To: decimon
A liberal could never come up with; "mankind's innate curiosity, thirst for new and challenges and a desire to experience the unknown.”
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posted on
02/28/2008 4:42:08 PM PST
by
HardStarboard
(Take No Prisoners - We're Out Of Qurans)
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