American_Westward_Movement(美国西进运动).docVIP

American Westward Movement U.S. Westward Movement is a long and sustained process of development. Back in the United States prior to independence, the Americans began to expand to the western North American continent, but until the United States after independence, the United States westward movement was more active and planned, and continues to the present. Throughout the American West in the history of westward movement can be divided into the following period. Agriculture is the main period of initial development From the War of Independence to the Civil War is the American West during the first period, mainly agriculture-based initial development period. Land on the western economic development after independence the United States has a special significance, not open to the west is not todays America. Seven years after the war ended, Britain and France, the United Kingdom from France won the west of the Appalachian Mountains of Canada and the east bank of the Mississippi River until the vast area; the same time, the United Kingdom announced that the Appalachian Mountains to the west of all land belongs to the British royal family, which be triggered anti-British colonists in North America one of the factors. Bourgeois desire for expansion of the national territory, land speculators attempt to derive profits, farmers, artisans, and put the western land of immigrants, as from oppression, the only hope for a new life. Integrated development of the industrial period From the Civil War to World War II is the American West in the second period, mainly based on industry-based, integrated development period. The end of the Civil War, especially after the reconstruction of the South, the South won the largest capitalist economy, the development of plantations in northern and southern main bourgeois compromise, there have been relatively stable political situation. At the same time, the second industrial revolution is rapidly rising, the United Stat