8-U4.2.3-Explain the expansion, conquest, and settlement of the West through the Louisiana Purchase, the removal of American Indians from their native lands, the growth of a system of commercial agriculture, the Mexican-American War, and the idea of Manifest Destiny. 8-U4.2.4-Develop an argument based on evidence about the positive and negative consequences of territorial and economic expansion on American Indians, the institution of slavery, and the relations between free and slaveholding states.
Unit 7 Writing Prompt
Do you think the expansion westward, and its subsequent consequences, helped, or hurt, the young United States?