The Negative Effects Of The Westward Expansion

The Westward Expansion and Industrialization has negatively impacted the United States (U.S.) politically, economically, socially and culturally. The Westward Expansion was a push to move America West in the 1800s (Westward Expansion) and it created the Indian Removal Act. The Industrial Revolution created machinery to make and provide goods on the shelf, started in the 1700s (Cooper). America took the Native Americans during the move West and assimilated them and completely changed everything. The Robber Barons had affected the Industrial Revolution, by cutting competition to make all the decisions for the businesses and started monopolies. The Westward Expansion had a negative effect on the U.S. by moving people from their homes and starting

President Jefferson made a treaty with France paying 15 million dollars. With the Expansion came the Indian Removal act in the 1830s, due to moving West they needed land that was occupied by Native Americans, the Removal Act gave the government the power to exchange land in the East for space in the West (Bosin). The Indian Removal Act removed thousands of Native tribes like the Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and the Creek tribes. With the tribes being forced to move it created the Trail of Tears, a 5,043 mile long walk marking 9 states for Native Americans to move (Bosin). The Native Americans had fought with the government due to the Removal Act by rebelling by not leaving, fighting and killing, or any other form of being rebellious toward what they were told. The Westward Expansion affected not only the Native tribes in horrible ways by forcing them to move, but also the Americans who had to suffer

It brought in railroads and ways of transportation by the Trans Continental Railroad, steam boats, and the start of cars. The working machinery stopped the work and also caused many workers to be fired because it became easier and less time consuming to make products using the machines. The Industrialists were rich ,old men who didn't need to lift a finger. The workers were hard laborers who worked over 16 hour days to support themselves and their families (Cooper). The photo of Protectors of Our Industry presents an illustration of scrawny men holding up the industries like steel, cloth and linen and they show the amounts for a week.The most money made was by linen workers at $11 a week (Anti-corporate). The old fat men at the top represent greed because they're holding up money bags as their stomach and they are dressed rich and fancy without lifting a finger. During the Industrial Revolution people striked due to work conditions, pay and many other reasons that are voted by the workers. Workers wouldn't show up to jobs or would become advocates to get what is believed to be right. People had their lives changed by needing to learn how to work with technology and some had to find other jobs due to being laid off. The Industrial Revolution created change that ruined people's lives. They worried about