Impact+of+Westward+migration

= Explain how westward expansion impacted the economy, Mexico. =

Summary
=== [|In the 19th century,] Americans continued their movement west ward to the Pacific Ocean.From the victory of the war with Mexico in 1848 a great amount of land was gained under American control. This caused thousand of Americans to move out west and take advantage of the land. Gold was soon discovered in California, many people from all around the world traveled to get rich. Within a year there were enough individuals in California for it to qualify for statehood. One major conflict of the expansion Westward was that Americans disagreed whether or not the new lands should be open to slavery.[| Because of the]disagreement fires arose that led to the[| Civil War]. The United States' original territory consisted of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virgina, North Carolina, Georgia, and South Carolina. This territory extended to the Pacific Ocean, but ceased at the Mississippi, after the Mississippi the rest of the territory to the west belonged to the king of Spain. When the United States doubled in size by the Louisiana Purchase the economy was on the rise also. The Western people focused on making a living from farming, and agriculture. ===

**Notes**
=== [|During the years]1815 and 1819 merchandise prices were on the rise, and this drove up land prices also. Farmers starting taking advantage of the extensive river systems of the west. Farmers began to ship corn and wheat down the Ohio River to the Mississippi, from there to the port of New Orleans where it was then shipped or sold to distant ports. Soon after Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin, farmers moved to the southwest to claim land hoping to produce cotton also. Soon Alabama and Mississippi produced half of the nations cotton. By 1816 and 1826 the United States' cotton output tripled and continued to be the nation's primary export. In 1819 the agriculture boom collapsed temporarily. After the crash many farmers started to grow cash crops, cash crops were know as wheat and corn and were sold far from where they are grown. Because of the time gap between the harvesting period and the sale of the cash crops, farmers found themselves borrowing money to sustain their families during which they received no income. the short term debts usually cut into long term profits. [|With Western expansion]came the California gold rush of 1849. The discovery of gold in California boosted its population by 80,000 prospectors. Six million dollars worth of gold was found in California's Rivers by 1849 and encouraged more individuals to move west and start mining. Many of the new immigrants migrating to California grew the population from 22,000 to 220,000 i just four years. Once the gold rush ended a few years later the economy still grew in agriculture, trade, and shipping which helped the economy nationally.v When California's forty niners or immigrants traveled to California they faced hardships. the trip was long and dreadful, and diseases spread rapidly on ships where people were compacted closely together. When Americans traveled west the economy boomed, in the West and as a nation as a whole, partly because of new inventions such as the[| cotton gin]. ===

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=== [|During the 1820s] there were reports that the southwest was leading to a large influx of American people settling in Eastern Texas. During this the Spanish and Mexican government tried to advocate the settlement of California and New Mexico by Hispanic people. They tried doing this in the form of missions, missions were placed along the cost of California, and the interior of New Mexico and Texas. These missionaries attempted to alter the region's Indians, and build towns around their missions, by 1823 20,00 Indians were converted and were living in the missions of California. In 1821 the mission system was on a rapid decline, due to Mexico's amount of time, energy, and funding its successful fight for Independence.[| The Mexican government] gave their lands to government officials and ranchers soon afterward; many Indians abandoned their missions and returned to their tribes. During the 20's and 30's Indian tribes terrorized the Mexicans, by stealing cattle and taking their women and children. Between the Indians and Hispanic conflict arose, and it was partly the Mexican policy's fault. Secularizing the missions caused some ranchers turning Indian into slaves laborers. Raids in New Mexico and California became frequent when settlers would search for Indian servants. Indians soon saw the Mexican government as the fortress of evil. ===





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