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May 2, 2010 · Westward: Directed by Andrew Chater, Marion Milne. With Daniel Webb, Michael Douglas, Colin Powell, Richard Machowicz. Trailblazing pioneers set out to conquer the vast continent west of the mountains, but find the land already claimed. Wagon trains meet danger and hardship on the road to unprecedented riches in California's golden hills.
- Andrew Chater, Marion Milne
- 1
- 31 sec
- Manifest Destiny
- Westward Expansion and Slavery
- Westward Expansion and The Mexican War
- Westward Expansion and The Compromise of 1850
- Bleeding Kansas
By 1840, nearly 7 million Americans–40 percent of the nation’s population–lived in the trans-Appalachian West. Following a trail blazed by Lewis and Clark, most of these people had left their homes in the East in search of economic opportunity. Like Thomas Jefferson, many of these pioneers associated westward migration, land ownership and farming w...
Meanwhile, the question of whether or not slavery would be allowed in the new western states shadowed every conversation about the frontier. In 1820, the Missouri Compromise had attempted to resolve this question: It had admitted Missouri to the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, preserving the fragile balance in Congress. More impor...
Despite this sectional conflict, Americans kept on migrating West in the years after the Missouri Compromise was adopted. Thousands of people crossed the Rockies to the Oregon Territory, which belonged to Great Britain, and thousands more moved into the Mexican territories of California, New Mexico and Texas. In 1837, American settlers in Texas joi...
In 1848, the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican War and added more than 1 million square miles, an area larger than the Louisiana Purchase, to the United States. The acquisition of this land re-opened the question that the Missouri Compromise had ostensibly settled: What would be the status of slavery in new American territories? After t...
But the larger question remained unanswered. In 1854, Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas proposed that two new states, Kansas and Nebraska, be established in the Louisiana Purchase west of Iowaand Missouri. According to the terms of the Missouri Compromise, both new states would prohibit slavery because both were north of the 36º30’ parallel. Howe...
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The Story of Us Episode 3: Westward A new country heads West With new heroes and a new enemy - The American wildness. The pioneers face incredible hardship But their battles forge the American character And build the new American nation. We are pioneers and trailblazers.
About the Show. America The Story of Us is an epic 12-hour television event that tells the extraordinary story of how America was invented. With highly realistic CGI animation,...
May 1, 2010 · Available on Prime Video, HISTORY Vault, Amazon Freevee. S1 E3: Trailblazing pioneers set out to conquer the west, but find the land already claimed. Wagon trains meet hardship on the road to California's gold. The steamboat ushers in a new era of commerce, industry, and unprecedented wealth.
As pioneers head west, the wagon trains meet danger and hardship on the road to unprecedented riches in California's golden hills. As shown on the History Channel. Part of the “America the Story of Us” series.
