Trace the beginnings of the westward movement

Westward expansion, the 19th-century movement of settlers into the American West, began with the Louisiana Purchase and was fueled by the Gold Rush, the Oregon Trail and a belief in "manifest destiny."

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By 1780 only a few hundred Americans had moved west and they were mostly moving to the north. In 1775 the Transylvania Company hired Daniel Boone to cut the Wilderness Road for people to move from Tennessee to Kentucky. By 1830 there were hundreds of thousands of Americans in the Michigan Territory, which later became known as Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. The population in the west steadily growing

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