In 1828, when Andrew Jackson was elected president, he promised to expand the United States westward. His justification for expansion seemed to him self-evident, for "What good man would prefer a ...

By Abbey White Associate Editor & News Writer Set within one of the more brutal and uncompromising periods of American history — the 19th Century Westward expansion — the show depicts the run ...

They were nationalists, supported internal improvements and moral reforms, and desired gradual westward expansion in congruence ... denounced the U.S. Constitution, and allowed female activists ...