western expansion
Settling new territories
Western expansion refers to growth or spreading in a westward direction.
The phrase describes any movement or development toward the west: The city's western expansion threatened farmland.
It can apply to urban sprawl, corporate growth, or territorial spread in any context. (Capitalized Western Expansion typically refers to U.S. territorial growth.)
- Great PlainsCentral North American grassland
- Oregon TrailEmigrant route westward
- covered wagonsCanvas-topped frontier vehicles
- Indian Removal ActLaw authorizing tribal expulsion
- wagon trainsGrouped pioneer vehicles westward
frontier life · land grants · Rocky Mountains · Louisiana Purchase · Homestead Act · land rush · railroads · iron horse · barbed wire · Native American history · Manifest Destiny · agriculture · cattle ranching · open range · cultural assimilation · Pony Express · telegraph lines · Mexican-American War
- Westernscowboys, western, outlaws, sheriffs, western novels
- Wild Westcowboy, howdy, sheriff, giddyup, lawmen
- frontierfrontier, pioneer, pioneers, settlers, settler
- Frontiersfrontier, border, boundary, edge, borderland
- Canadian HistoryConfederation, Rupert's Land, colonial era, colonial government, self-government
- PhoeniciaTyre, Phoenicians, Carthage, Tyrian purple, cedar wood
western expansionretreat
Sanctuary or withdrawal
retrenchment · consolidation · withdrawal · abandonment · decolonization