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Must use sources listed(do not have a copy of textbook) Must be plagiarism freeMust be grade of 95% or higherThe expansion of the United States from thirteen states hugging the east coast when Britain acknowledged American independence in 1783 to a continental empire stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean was a remarkable story of physical growth. In 1845, an editor attached a label, “Manifest Destiny,” to justify American expansion (Norton, A People and a Nation, Brief 10th ed., 340), but the process began decades before he popularized the phrase.What drove Americans to move so aggressively toward the west? Do you think this is a story of unalloyed triumph, a mixture of beneficial and detrimental impacts for all the people involved, or an overwhelming tragedy? Discuss and cite evidence from the assigned materials to support your views. **********Sources that must be used:londonessays.com…Read: Textbook 165-169, 185-187, 204-208, 238-239, 241-245, 300-307, 311-313, 318-319, 322-324Norton, Mary Beth, Jane Kamensky, Carol Sheriff, David W. Blight, Howard P. Chudacoff, Frederick Logevall, Beth Bailey, and Debra Michals. A People & a Nation: A History of the United States. Brief Tenth ed. Boston, MA: Cengage, 2015. ISBN-13: 9781285430843*****Teacher’s discussion point:I think because almost none of my students have had backgrounds in farming and such a small

percentage of Americans today make their living off the land, it is important to emphasize how central agriculture was to the United States throughout the entire time span covered by the course. After the Revolution acquisition of land for agriculture continued to be a crucial endeavor. Even before the Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation, the Confederation Congress managed to organize the land in the Northwest Territory (Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, etc.) in 1785 and 1787 (Norton, Brief 10th ed., 167-169). The Confederation government intended to open these lands up to settlers. However, the land prices were too high for most farmers, unless they had earned land warrants for their service in the Revolution. Speculators often bought the land and sold smaller sections for prices that more Americans could afford. Even after railroads began to supplement and replace river, canal and lake traffic in the 1840s and 1850s, access to the western waterways was a crucial element in making trade workable in the west. We will examine the improvements in transportation in more detail, but for now we should note that it made it economically viable to ship agricultural products great distances at low cost. This facilitated a long-term transformation in agriculture, as local mixed agriculture was supplanted by commercial farming (Norton, Brief 10th ed., 219, 275).