Lesson overview
In this lesson, discover why many Americans believed it was their destiny to expand west across the continent. Learn how settlers traveled by wagon on tough journeys for land, gold, and freedom—and how new railroads helped. Explore how this expansion changed the U.S. forever, and how it deeply impacted Native American peoples and cultures.
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