The westward expansion era in the United States was one of great importance, as it helped to create the shape of the United States today. One of the reasons acquiring land was important was because it would help to complete America's manifest destiny. Manifest destiny is a term that states that it was America's god- given right to control all land from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. This belief that it was supposed to be America's land caused them to buy land (like the Louisiana Purchase from the French and Florida from Spain) and even fight for it (Mexican-American War- results in US getting Arizona, California, Utah, etc.).
Besides completing America's manifest destiny, acquiring this land allowed the US to gain significant natural resources. A perfect example would be in California. After gaining California from Mexico, gold was found. This lead to the California Gold Rush of 1849. Finding this valuable commodity lead to a huge increase in the population of California and it gave the American economy a boost.
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African Americans continued to farm because there were few opportunities other than sharecropping.
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Many African Americans remained bound to the land after the Civil War because there were few economic opportunities and most of the skills they had learned were related to farming. There was also the Civil War idea called “forty acres and a mule,” when it was envisioned that blacks would cultivate land that was to be abandoned by whites. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln ordered abandoned Confederate land to be sold to freedmen and agreed to loan army mules. By 1865, 40,000 formerly enslaved persons lived on 400,000 acres of land primarily in South Carolina and Georgia. During Reconstruction sharecropping became common among the African Americans who stayed where they would rent land from landowners and pay with a percentage of what they harvested.
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D. Under dual federalism, the federal government was concerned mostly with foreign relations.
Article II of the U.S. Constitution describes the structures and functions of the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government (The U.S. President). This Article describes the President's chief functions and duties. It outlines the President's term limits which are terms of 4 years. In addition it establishes the President as Commander and Chief of the U.S. Military as the head of the Marines, Navy, and Army. In addition it vests the power to make treaties and to appoint judges and cabinet members with Congress' approval in the hands of the President.
C.) expanding pensions for civil war veterans and increasing federal government purchases of silver
