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The gold rush had the biggest impact on the westward expansion because many people moved west in search for gold. It made companies start building railroads to help get people over west, and people knew that they could own more land if they moved west because not many people lived there yet.

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The term Manifest Destiny negatively drove the Americans to move west but also to cause supremacy acts to occur. The Americans soon came obsessed with Manifest Destiny when thinking of westward expansion which consumed them with avarice, which resulted in passing an Indian removal act, the term caused ideas of supremacy to appear, including the mistreatment of people with different ethnicities during the Gold Rush, and the term shaped the American identity in an atrocious way. This all led and contributed to the inhuman acts of greed, avarice, supremacy, and thirst for power, committed during the duration of westward expansion.

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The operations that occur in the Gold Rush was not a fair reason to move west. The killings of the Natives American would not agree to the terms of what our great country was built on.  The bad work of the mexican and the asians did not make them equal to the rest. The actions of the Americans during the Gold Rush did not match of the beliefs of American Identity.

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The time period of Manifest Destiny did not only give us land but also destroy others lives and land. The Indian removal act removed people from there land. The Texas annexation came right after a war. And the Missouri Compromise fuiled the ever growing debate about slavery.

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The Gold Rush had an adverse effect on Westward Expansion. Asian Laborers seeking a new life in America were mistreated and abused, Native Americans continued to lose territory and the devastating and harmful consequences of human interaction with the environment all demonstrate that expansion was not predestined by God.

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The industrial revolution led to more child labor and sparked a race for slave territory. Lastly it drove millions of Natives from their homes.

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The Industrial Revolution helped with the westward expansion by making new ways to get to the West such as the steamboat and the locomotive, created easier machines and tools to help the people moving west survive and make their lives easier, and created factories which gave people a place to work and get out of poverty. All of this contributed to Manifest Destiny.

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The concept of Westward Expansion and the American Identity is contradicted by the historical occurrence of the California Gold Rush. The people who would come to find gold and prosperity would often be deprived of their lives instead because of their hunger for wealth. The indigenous of America, also known as Native Americans, were forced out of their homes in order for the Americans to continue their search for gold. Another race that was treated similarly by the Americans for this reason was the Asians, who became laborers to assist the Americans in their search for riches.

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The population expansion from the California Gold Rush had a positive impact on the American Identity. Many immigrants traveled to America because of the gold rush, and also drew citizens from the United States that lived in the East to the West. Because of the population growth, more jobs and opportunities increased, which helped start up a more developed society.

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The population expansion from the California Gold Rush had a positive impact on the American Identity. Many immigrants traveled to America because of the gold rush, and also drew citizens from the United States that lived in the East to the West. Because of the population growth, more jobs and opportunities increased, which helped start up a more developed society.

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The gold rush was bad for the American Identity because we exploited Native Americans by taking their homes, destroyed the land to find gold, and lastly, discriminated the Asian laborers to come for the gold.

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Westward expansion towards the gold rush induced a negative impact by harming the environment. It caused unjust working conditions for Asian people and the gold rush pushed Native American off their land and enslaved them.

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The gold rush contradicted the american identity. It caused extreme poverty, different ethnic groups were treated extremely poor and discriminated against while at the same time the environment was being destroyed. The gold rush definitely had a negative impact on westward expansion.  

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The gold rush contradicted the american identity. It caused extreme poverty, different ethnic groups were treated extremely poor and discriminated against while at the same time the environment was being destroyed. The gold rush definitely had a negative impact on westward expansion.  

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The California Gold Rush negatively impacted the many lives of the Native American tribes living in this area. The population of Natives in California between 1848 and 1855 drastically decreased because the European settlers brought about serious disruptions to the native way of life. The new settlers overwhelmed them with threats of slavery, disease, and major losses in their land.