I believe the answer you are looking for is the homestead act of 1862
It created an orderly plain to settle a new area of the u.s, the territory grew in population and got rights for self government as well.
Dear Diary,
How I wish I could do more than sign letters all day. Being a king is such a merry sorrow why I rather be knight instead. But at last I shall not therefore this crown has been passed down from my father and I must continue the family legacy. Until tomorrow diary. ~King
Our reasons were racial, anti-imperialist, land claim specific, and practical. The goal of the United States was not to conquer another country, but to simply add to its territory, expand westward (primarily) and fulfill the goal of manifest destiny
Franklin’s Attitude would have been not if we had not know what he was writing as a writer to is
