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15 gru 2009 · The westward expansion of the United States is one of the defining themes of 19th-century American history, but it is not just the story of Jefferson’s expanding “empire of liberty.”
The first transcontinental railroad played a pivotal role in the history of the Western United States. The history of the American West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries has acquired a cultural mythos in the literature and cinema of the United States.
Western North America was inhabited for millennia by various groups of Native Americans and later served as a frontier to the Spanish Empire, which began colonizing the region starting in the 16th century.
13 lis 2024 · Virtually every part of the United States except the Eastern Seaboard has been “the West” at some point in American history, linked in popular imagination with the last frontier of American settlement.
From the moment that small bands of settlers set out across the Appalachian Mountains in the 1750s to the closing of the frontier around 1890, Americans sprawled and fought their way across thick forests, vast prairies, and soaring mountains, claiming as their own lands once inhabited by Native American tribes, or by Spanish or Mexican settlers ...
This America West Timeline lists the critical years of the Western American territory's discovery, colonization, and settlement.
The history of the American West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has acquired a cultural mythos in the literature and cinema of the United States. The image of the cowboy, the homesteader, and westward expansion took real events and transmuted them into a myth of the West that has influenced American culture since at least ...
