The Removal Act of 1830 guaranteed the Indians lands in the west ... as an invasion by Mexico of American land, divided the country, with Democrats siding with expansion, and Abraham Lincoln ...

President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in bringing Greenland and the Panama Canal under U.S. control and suggested making Canada the 51st state.

Duplicating America's westward expansion would be something rather different. (Not, of course, that the British Empire didn't do the same sort of thing in Canada, Australia, and anywhere else ...

Bicknell touches on the many forces at work in America at the time. So we get to learn something ... including anti-Mormonism and anti-Catholicism), immigrant and Nativists, the Westward Movement, ...

The writer Horace Greeley, who popularised this idea, advised Americans: Go West, young man. Once the population of an area reached 60,000, it could apply to become a state of the USA. Local ...

The Removal Act of 1830 guaranteed the Indians lands in the west ... as an invasion by Mexico of American land, divided the country, with Democrats siding with expansion, and Abraham Lincoln ...