Between the years of 1840 and 1890 America expanded westward. During the expansion, America took up the ideas of the “Manifest Destiny”. America expanded towards the west where there were many positive and negative factors that played a role in this progress. Another big factor was Americas Natural Environment. The Manifest Destiny was a belief that America was destined to expand its boundaries to the Pacific Ocean. Document H shows the theories behind the Manifest Destiny were …showed first 75 words of 606 total…

…showed last 75 words of 606 total…both show that although there was a great struggle there was still a chance and this gave many people hope, so like the others they traveled westward instead of staying behind. There were many things that helped to the decision of expanding westwards, and there were also others that didn’t help as much. After all the natural environment appealed to many and didn’t make it a hard decision to get what they wanted.