Biography of america westward expansion for kids

The early settlers of the United States rarely went past the Appalachian Mountains. Almost all of the colonies were on North America’s East Coast and they eventually became the original thirteen colonies.

The expansion into the West was due to the need for more land and as the United States grew, so did the desire to take advantage of more regions.

It was only a matter of time before the expansion included the frontier areas of the West.

Moving Westward

The growth of the American colonies exploded from the , colonists in to million only 75 years later.

People were arriving in the new world to achieve prosperity, have land of their own, and to pursue religious freedom and it didn’t take long to being eyeing new areas.

The famed pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman, Daniel Boone, took the lead for a group of settlers to take them across the Cumberland Gap and entered into Kentucky.

This was the first exploration into the settlement of the area known as the Northwest T