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From the Westward expansion that the United States completed during the 19th century, the U.S. gained a lot of important things. From fulfilling the idea of Manifest Destiny, to acquiring more than two million square kilometers full of unexplored territory and untapped wealth.
The U.S. also gained much needed new land for its growing population to settle, especially since during the latter half of the nineteenth century, immigration to the U.S. exploded like never before in history.
They found it unusual for a woman to publish writings under her own name.
Margaret Lucas Cavendish (1623 - 1673), was a philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction writer and drama writer of the seventeenth century. Her work is an early and adaptable version of naturalism that is still in philosophy and science today. It has greatly helped to popularize the idea of a scientific revolution. As the first known female philosopher in England, she strongly advocated the education of women and their inclusion in science, for which she had problems and was criticized. The contemporaries resented her, because she as a woman published her works and writings and was not signed by any other name.
