Similarly, the Industrial Revolution served as a catalyst for expansion, especially in the late 1800s and early 1900s, by supplying more military goods, sparking a desire for wealth and profit through innovation, and developing new methods for expansion. ... America's strengthened navy was a deviation from past expansionism because it incited and enabled the ability to spread outwards and continue the basic driving force of Americans: land ownership. ... Manifest Destiny as a driving force behind American expansion is an element seen throughout America's westward expansion beginning ...

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Thanks to the Industrial Revolution and the developments in public transportation, the large-scale migration was made possible. ... On the contrast of the market revolution in the North, however, white planters in southern colonies were still relying heavily on their profitable "King Cotton"" and thus relying on slavery, making no responses to social changes at all. The two clearly split economic systems did not only affect whites, but also other subordinate racial groups as well; for example, black Americans' suffering under slavery, Native Americans' forcible removal, and Mexican A...

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It affected the physical context of the American environment and the changing experience of American life. The nineteenth century saw the continental expansion of the United States and a transportation revolution that resulted from it, as well as industrialization, astonishing population growth and urbanization. ... Westward movement, which often involved the violent displacement of native people, was stimulated by the concept of Manifest Destiny, the divine right of white Americans to settle the whole North American continent. ... His perception of the American landscape was produced by the...

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