CAS HI 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Little Turtle, Federal Bank, Miami People
10 Aug 2016
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The changes which came in the wake of the revolution was not only political and social, but physical as well. Before this period, people were afraid of going into the wild west . In the years after the revolution, colonists poured into the west on their own will. Not as a result of famine or anything like that. Reflects rugged individualism, breaking of the soil. 3 arguments: westward migration was fueled by an endless hunger for land because the population was growing the westward expansion was much more complex and varied than we imagined. 3. the reality of life on the frontier created the attitude of the manifest destiny. Strong sense of themselves; no holding back. During 1783, the population was on the move--to the west, north, and south. In 1776, there were really few people of european and african descent living west of the appalachian mountains.
