How U.S. Westward Expansion Breathed New Life into Slavery

The 19th-century American West has long been described as a land of opportunity. But for many, it was little more than another place of bondage.
America is at the brink of a Civil War as cotton spreads west and threatens to expand slavery into new territories.

Writings Daina Ramey Berry

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Module 21: Slavery and Westward Expansion — Mary C. Klann, PhD

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Westward Expansion - Timeline, Events & Facts

Western Expansion, the New South, and Industrial America, 1870–1890

Africans in America/Part 4/Eric Foner on the role of westward expansion

Imagining the West, territorial expansion, and the politics of

Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion