Western Expansion Quotes
This quotation illustrates the racist view of Native Americans that prevailed at the time. The Mexican government invited settlers and would give then the Indian lands. In addition to Mexicans who came to Texas, many Americans also went to Texas, changing their citizenship to Mexico. Later, they banded together and broke from Mexico and Joined the United States. The Indians lost most of their lands.
Most of her modern admirers tend to repress this quotation which is very embarrassing for most modern conservatives. However, there is a minority of thinkers who maintain that land, unused, is open to anyone who will make use of it to improve civilization. Many conservationists, in contrast, extol unused land for preservation.
The economic development contribution of military spending is not new and not limited to today’s military bases and defense contracts and plants. See {623902} for Sheridan’s famous prediction.
The Donner Party became stranded in heavy snow while crossing the mountains. Forty-two emigrants, including Donner, and two Indian guides died, however, the remaining forty-seven travelers survived.
The founding fathers assumed that as the West was settled, there would be more states in the Union. However, Morris, a bit of a snob and an aristocrat, assumed that the Westerners would be a little rougher than the established Eastern States and in particular would be more inclined to use violence and engage in war. So he wanted some provision that the original “maritime” East Coast states could not be outvoted. He did not prevail and all states were treated as equal in the Senate, but he turned out to be right about the warlike propensity. Kentucky and other “Western” areas were strong advocates for the War of 1812. The Atlantic states were much more vulnerable to a British invasion and the Maritime States’ economy could be easily ruined (and was) by a naval blocade, where the Western states’ economics were not much affected by the war. The West was also more strongly for the Mexican War, the Indian Wars, and even the Mormon Wars.
Bonnycastle was one of the earliest visionaries of a transcontinental railroad. The Canadian version however was constructed after the United States.
Between a purchase of lands from the Hudson's Bay Corporation and land grants, Canada annexed millions of acres of land without much political activity or any assent from the people who lived on those lands.
