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Argument: Westward expansion brought change.
The opening of the west brought change in the role of the government.
Federal government had to play a more active role in helping the country grow and take advantage of the new land. Also had complete control over new territories and could do what he wanted with territories that belonged to native Americans.
Many court cases were decided by the supreme court that gave a lot of power to the federal government.
Use the revenue from the sale of federal lands to finance the construction of highways and canals
It marked the beginning of the Republican Party as the only party.
Republicans started to be divided as different factions became more evident.
The split of the Republican party that dated back to Jefferson was when John Quincy Adams was elected President following what was called the corrupt bargain
Despite winning more electoral college votes, Andrew Jackson did not win this election, which led him to create a new party: the Democrats
This new party was centered in the men that came from the west, rather than the industrialists of the north or the plantation owners of the south.
The U.S. was changing its role in the international community.
The Monroe doctrine gave some power to the U.S. to do anything with the western territories and some remaining colonies that Europeans had.
Conflict with native americans in florida caused the U.S. to take control of florida taking the spanish away.
Westward expansion contributed to technological advancement.
It contributed to the expansion of business, through the emergence of the factory and this created new classes.
Technological advancement helped improve transportation through the invention of the railroad.
These connected different distant regions of the country and it made movement faster. Distance that was reduced by the railroad was also then reduced by the invention of the telegraph.
Migration also increased as the promise of new land and opportunity provided a hope of a better life for the Irish and Scottish.
Rise to the factory system, converting the Northeast into the epicenter of the American Industrial Revolution.
Socially the West changed the US.
the factory and this created new classes which redefined the roles that men and women had within household and society, and it also affected the way in which immigrants were being seen.
Due to manufacturing a new social class became the ruling one. It was the industrial one which soon would become powerful enough to control the economy and politics of the country.
For the first time the spheres of workplace and household became separate and limited to a certain gender. Women were in charge of the household in what became known as the cult of domesticity, which left women detached from the workplace, meaning that the role was confined to the house.
This rise of migrants also contributed to a growing hatred towards them which gave birth to nativism and to the short lived American party, the know-nothings.
