How The United States Expanded

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The United States today has a population of just over 330 million people, with the majority of these living within settlements that lie within in the Eastern half of the country. This is a longstanding impact of centuries of predominantly European settlers, migrating across the Atlantic Ocean and establishing themselves in new towns and cities along the Eastern seaboard. Comparatively, much fewer settlements exist in the western half of the nation, with the only notable exception being the coastal communities clinging to the Pacific shoreline from California in the South, to Washington state in the North.
However, a little over 2 centuries ago in the year 1800, the population density of the United States looked markedly different. Back then, only 5.3 million Americans lived in 16 states that were bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the East and the Appalachian Mountains to the West. Beyond that, lay a vast unchartered wilderness of grassland plains, snow capped mountains and arid deserts, which were inhabited by thousands of native Americans who had called this land their home for millennia. In a matter of just a handful decades, this entire region would be opened up and explored by prospective settlers coming from the East, yearning for a chance to better themselves in this new land of opportunity.
This is how the United States expanded westwards.

[@da.bean1]

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[@jimferris9447]

Not one mention of Saint Louis: The Gateway to the West. It was here that Lewis & Clark started their trek across the vast unknown. It was here that William Clark served as Governor of the Missouri Territory (all of the Louisiana Territory, less the existing new state of Louisiana near New Orleans), and where he was also the first US Head of Indian Affairs. For years after the Lewis & Clark expedition, tribes would make their way down the Missouri River to Saint Louis to search out Clark’s counsel. They believed in and respected him, even if (increasingly) he had bad news about an expanding US. He would tell them the truth. It was the home base of the fur trappers/traders you mentioned, and it was the last place of civilization for many people heading to the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails. The early frontier-taming Hawken Rifle was manufactured in Saint Louis that nearly all mountain men and early wagon trains used.

[@jaynoon6376]

Amazing video, this definetly needs a part 2 !!

[@thiziriii]

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[@micahistory]

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[@williambrace6885]

Bro this video is amazing

[@Moepowerplant]

4:22 Am picturing Han Wu Di being the one floating up there holding a bamboo scroll leading Han settlers below into Minyue and Nanyue lands.

[@UWU-yg9lj]

America brought whole new meaning to farther like son 😂 (as you know Britain also did a similar thing on the quest of spices)

[@LuizfTri99]

make a video about the Brazilian monarchy, that will be cool

[@BrandonCockridge18]

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[@johnfarmakis8518]

What did they do when the 49ers, who chose the water route west, got to panama? Did they just abandoned their goat ships and hike and build giant ships on the other side? Those people must have been polish settlers

[@renegadepuppy]

I was thinking why this channel has less subscribers and views. I was proved right when you showed the map of Texas. The area of Texas under contention was different from the modern territory of Texas. I just came back from the Alamo a month ago. Please do some research. Even other KZbinrs have done more justice on showing the correct boundaries of Texas between battle of Alamo and Texas revolution to the Mexican American war.

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[@tmghui888]

The people of Texas and the Californios at that time wanted to be part of the US instead of Mexico and it happened.

[@adriennejordan8028]

Promo`SM

[@BrandonCockridge18]

HOLY F

[@daroqu_]

Don't ever pronounce Appalachian like that ever again.

[@kodywalker9902]

It was good but Mexico was the one to declare war on the US. A few years earlier there was the Texas revolution in which Texas won independence and then requested to join the US. Once the US accepted Mexico declared war because it still seen Texas as part of their country.

[@botbot5012]

no. the u.s has always fucked and lie about its history with latin america

[@JamilAhmed-md8mf]

One word: genocide.

[@thearyamehrrf6886]

Exactly. You see how white peoples try to romanticize their bullshit and crimes? Lol funny cause everything they did, they’re against happening to them… that’s why I love the African and Muslim migrants of Europe.

[@G.C.90]

@@thearyamehrrf6886bull 💩 you generalise about white people. I come from a white people country, yet we never committed genocides of other peoples or cultures, nor had imperialistic needs. And there are a lot of white people countries in Europe that where subjugated by other white people. So you get it absolutely wrong. It’s not the colour or race. Black peoples in Africa also committed sold slaves to the white imperialists. And muslims had a loooot of examples of genocides and imperialism. Yet everyone shuts up on them. Hypocrisy. Learn history, not only the one comfortable to you.

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[@daveharringbone8512]

1898. The year Hawaii became great again

[@ahotdj07]

It’s absolutely horrible what we did to the indigenous people with their land. What gave us the right to take their land?

[@user-mo9xr2ji9e]

They did the same thing to obtain it. Survival of the fittest, that's all

[@DaltonFTT]

They were taking each others land and slaughtering each other for thousands of years before Europeans arrived. They’re no more peaceful or righteous than any other groups of people who’ve ever existed.

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[@KeithPatterson-pm2yd]

I don't want to live if I can't live in amarica

[@aidancox4665]

God gave us the right Manifest destiny for the win

[@davidhodgin3792]

Terrible video! Very condensed version. 😢