Some leaders influenced the expansion, and due to rising population in the west.
Westward expansion
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It ended Native American resistance for the time being. -NovaNet
Continual planting wore out the soil.
The westward Expansion started after the gold rush in 1849.
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When America sought westward expansion in the 1850s, there were many issues that presented themselves. One major underlying source of tension was slavery and the strife between the North and the South.
Not in westward expansion, during, it was one of the expansion wars. It took place in Montana,
The new states became the object of competition for North and South. The North increasingly needed to appease the Abolitionist lobby in Congress. The South wanted more slave-states, to extend its cotton empire, and also to maintain its influence in Congress and prevent it from passing laws that favoured the North.
Westward expansion (APEX)