When looking at the title “The New West: Empire within a Nation” I do see an empire within the new nation. I see that the political unit as in the government has compromised with a number of territories or nations, (tribes) and that government has domination and control in the new west. Enumerating my ideas, I see this by the choices they made throughout the course of settlers coming into the West, the compromises they had to make and the rules they had to establish throughout the years of settlement. They are not the best ideas for a nation but they are used to help gain many settlers and build their Empire. How the government is like an Empire is first off the government’s territory keeps expanding westward from the East. Why I think expansion