Western Expansion Essays

This paper provides the early conditions of the Western Culture on African culture and also examines the changes of the African culture due to expansion of the European culture.The African people were in critical condition during the 19th century and they were in the low level in technology, production, arts department, military when compared to other Western cultures.The globalization was the responsible in the 20th century by the influences of the Western culture to the African culture.The loss of centeredness notes the mid stage of 19th and the 20th in non Western region and during that time, Africans were suffered without any social, economical and the political background to them.Impact of the Western Culture on African Culture .

Artists were basing their art on western nature, like George Caleb Bingham, who documented the west.All of the factors previously mentioned were extremely significant in the promotion of national unity, along with a lot more.Although every issue had its good and bad issues, and there were people for and against each one of them, especially the western expansion, the early 1800’s were a time when the nation truly came together as a whole.We had ties in many other countries and would trade many of our crops.The creation of national literature and art, an increase in economic activity, and the western expansion were some of the most significant.

She was similar to Peter in a lot of her beliefs, such as her feelings toward Westward expansion.After a long visit to England and Holland, he returned to Russia convinced that the empire could only become powerful by imitating western successes.By the time Catherine died, Russia had grown immensely.with the ability to inflict high levels of punishment on their serfs.Russia, on the other hand, was heavily concerned with territorial expansion, eventually becoming the chief power of Eastern Europe.

They both went through many changes and adaptions which included some blending of cultures and beliefs.As mentioned before Eastern religions expanded in a very peaceful manner, while the growth and expansion of the Western religions was more violent.... middle of paper ... .As mention by Cason and Tillman “A defining theme that runs through the history of all three Western religions is that they arose out of conflict.” And still to this day they are in conflict.In the end, both religions had to go through as process of great growth and expansion to become the World religions of today.

When Native Americans were seen as an "obstacle" in westward expansion, film directors supported these views on screen.Women who played significant roles in society used to be ignored by history books, and are now included in almost every chapter.The depiction of minorities, specifically women and Native Americans, in Western film has changed drastically from the early 1930's to the late 1980's.The depiction of the West is similar to that which is found in old history textbooks, em... ... middle of paper ... ...th the first westward expansion and the oppression of women lasted until the 1950's.The progressive movements made by the film industry and society are allowing for Americans to look at the west in a new, enlightened manner.

The slowdown of Wal-Mart’s expansion can also make other western companies reluctant to enter Indian market.As for Wal-Mart, the company will have to go back to western markets.The Wal-Mart’s expansion slow-down will favorably affect the Indian market and economy as national companies will be more competitive and efficient.“Wal-Mart Breaks up with Indian Partner Bharti Enterprises.” CNN Money 9 October 2013.There are chances that Wal-Mart will focus on western markets.

The role of the federal government became the promotion of expansion into the “new frontier”.After the abolition of slavery the western frontier was not so severely disputed.To future Presidents such as expansionist Theodore Roosevelt, expansion would lie beyond the borders of the United states.For the moment many African Americans were content with the view to “cast down the bucket” and be patient in waiting for equality.The Missouri compromise and later the Kansas and Nebraska compromise which both required federal government aid to help determine expansion based on slavery.

In august, the international force was able to subdue the rebellion.- Led to Pearl Harbor (BBC - Japanese Expansion) .- Japan invasion of Manchuria, China that started on 18 September 1931 (BBC - Japanese Expansion) .To protect their interests in China, Japanese soldiers and other forces were sent to subdue them.Thus, many sought for imperialism as the answer, such as the Western power and Japan.

Poland, the Czech, and Slovak regions of Europe remained more a part of the Western tradition than part of the Russian cultural milieu.Catherine turned rapidly against Western ideas during the French Revolution and censored Russian intellectuals who criticized autocracy.* Created a navy by importing western engineers and craftsmen to build ships and shipyards .Schools emphasizing mathematics and science were constructed to introduce Western intellectual developments.International trade was handled through Western merchant companies located in the capital city.

It is obvious that these economic and social conditions were so fundamental in Western life that they might well dominate whatever accessions came to the West by immigration from the coast sections or from Europe.At last these Western forces of aggressive nationalism and democracy took possession of the government in the person of the man who best embodied them, Andrew Jackson.They promoted equality among the Western settlers, and reacted as a check on the aristocratic influences of the East.The Western problem is no longer a sectional problem; it is a social problem on a national scale.The Western man believed in the manifest destiny of his country.

All great wealthy and proposing countries of the world look to expansion, many becuase it adds new lands for population growth and recourses to control.A sad thing to think, is that this misunderstand of slavery being the main reason for expansion is what ultimately lead up to the Civil War, but the reasons behind expansion in the west are not this black and white.The opponents of the annexation of Texas and the Mexican War condemned slavery as the main reason of expansion.There were a lot of motives behind westward expansion and Manifest Destiny, it was not just slavery, albeit it did play a big part, anyone who assumes that it were the sole reason is wrong, there was the matter of the country 's security, rapid population growth, and t...

Overall, the results of the Opium Wars further confirmed Britain’s core motives for imperial expansion in China.In consequence, Britain deemed that it was their obligation, as a dominant nation, to bring sensibility, western culture and industrialization to a ‘barbaric’, uncivilized country, like China.Initially, China refused to implement western ideas and technology because they too felt superior.Examples of Western influences are apparent by the influx of Christian missionaries, and the construction of Christian churches and railways in China, in order to promote their ethnicity.Furthermore, the excessive colonization of weaker countries was a symbol of power and prestige, thus increasing Britain’s motives for further expansion.

The goods produced ranged everywhere from cotton textiles to military machinery, all of which would play important roles in rounds of imperialistic expansion that would follow.While there are many important facets of the industrial revolution that took place in Western Europe there are two very important results in relation to imperialism.Although Russia did not become an imperialistic power like the nations in Western Europe, as well as the United States and Japan, it does serve as an example of how imperialism encouraged a “second round” of industrial revolution.As was India one of the first nations to be fully subjugated British imperial rule.In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries vast changes occurred in Western Europe (and soon ...

Even though Northern congressmen supported the Wilmot Proviso, which banned slavery in all new Western territories, the Southern congressmen completely disagreed and went against it.Southerners wanted these new territories to support slavery, so they could have more senators/representatives in congress, whereas the North wanted the new territories to reject slavery.They opposed slavery’s expansion in the Western territories in the late 1840s and early 1850s.During the expansion westward of United States, controversy between the Northern and the Southern States quickly arose.In result, pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups flooded Kansas and battled in the “Bleeding Kansas” conflict over whether the territory would become a free or slave st...

This internal conflict lead to a change in direction of popular political movements.In conclusion, the annexation of these states combined to create major controversy that had a massive and long term impact on the politics of not only western settlements, but national slavery as well.The controversy of expansion began when America gained Texas as a new territory.The annexation of these states combined to create major controversy that had a massive and long term impact on the politics of not only western settlement, but national slavery as well.Over time, the western territory became the destination of bored city folk who longed for the farming life.

One of the greatest fears of those opposed to cultural globalisation is that it offers English speaking and western culture as something to aspire to whilst abandoning traditional culture.Certainly, the marginalisation and dilution of local cultures through the efforts of Western media and brand marketing is a concern.With the global expansion of US media companies comes the global expansion of US culture.Those opposed to globalisation remain strongly opposed to the spread of the stereotypical McDonalds and Coke culture that personifies Western and particularly American culture.In addition to Western films, music and media being promoted across the globe in an attempt to dominate popular culture, the ability to speak English is becoming ...

By the mid-seventeenth century, France, England and Holland would assume the lead in the Atlantic.Spain and Portugal were the first two nations to begin exploring the Atlantic.The initial reason was that the economy in Western Europe at the end of the fifteenth century was doing well.The Spanish now recognized that globe was simply too big for a journey of this magnitude to be feasible.In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the Spanish and Portuguese would begin a wave of European overseas expansion that would shape the modern world.

Since the John Ford era of western cinematography, audiences of Western films had been primed to anticipate expansive, open landscapes, red-orange deserts and plains where a sweeping sense of freedom in interrupted only by the isolated smoke signal or Native American scout.The harsh, unforgiving, cold wilderness that serves to contrast with the conventional warm, expansive Western landscape.Departing from the larger-than-life nature of classical western heroes, director Robert Altman injects a darker realism into his protagonist that reflects the revisionist nature of the film.John McCabe’s role as the “gunfighting goodie” struggling against an oppressive force of injustice and greed stems directly from the Western genre.With careful att...

A&E Television Networks, n.d.“UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT POLICIES TOWARD NATIVE AMERICANS, 1787-1990: A GUIDE TO MATERIALS IN THE BRITISH LIBRARY.” THE BRITISH LIBRARY, n.d.Western expansion brought conflict to the Native Americans.Whittaker, David J.Western expansion affected the lives of Native Americans during the time period between 1860 and 1890 for many reasons such as Indian Reservations and restrictions, military conflicts, and assimilation.

Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1981.Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1966.Let us consider these differences further, beginning with how Turner presents the expansion of the American peoples across the North American continent.We can see how Turner assumes this identity was a given fact of life, emerging on its own out of nowhere on the North American landscape which further legitimized, in Turner’s view, the expansion of American’s into the western frontier.Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism.

After the wide spread of the Western culture to many non-Western countries, different parts of the world had experienced a lot of changes in terms of their ways of life, religion, traditions and the like.In total, the Western Enlightenment brought light and darkness to different aspects of living of not only the Western countries but also the non-Western countries.Moreover, Western influence further expanded during the 20th century with the rise of the mass media such as motion pictures, radio, television and the like (Eze 2001).But what matters most here is that the Western countries became successful in spreading and enlightening their concept of enlightenment since it is clearly and justifiably manifested in most parts of the world.Th...

To catch up with the Western powers and shorten the process in the development of imperialism, Japan had to emulate the existing models from the Western powers.They considered it necessary that focus should be on modernization and economic growth to catch up with Western industrial powers prior to taking any significant steps to expand Japan’s influence in foreign matters.Japan later applied what she learned from the Western powers to Korea in exactly the format that she was treated by the Western powers... Japanese imperialism was different from its counterpart of the Western powers’.Unlike imperialism of the Western powers whose major objectives was economic, at the early stage of Japan’s imperialistic expansion, security was the prim...

Although many seemingly happy events such as the “Era of Good Feelings” and the granting of universal white manhood suffrage occurred during the early 1800’s, the statement that nationalism and not the fear of sectionalism caused westward expansion is an invalid statement.The National Bank, although established by the nationalist Alexander Hamilton, played a big role in sectionalism in the United States.In addition to these events, the Tariff of 1828 made Southerners angry yet again and widened the rift between the North and South even more.Thus, these two events added to the worries of both sides and to the westward expansion fever.This made the Southerners upset because it showed partiality to the northern factories and hurt the southe...

1921 Mayer, Hans Eberhard.1965 Microsoft Encarta encyclopedia 2004.Trade passed through Italian hands to Western Europe with a tremendous profit.The Crusades: Second Edition.Basically the Crusades were an expression of militant Christianity and European expansion.

The western view of the time saw Stalin as doing one of two things: either continuing the expansionist policies of the tsars that preceded him, or worse, spreading communism across the world now that his “one-state” notion had been fulfilled.Furthermore, the states within Cominform were expected to keep trade within the Cominform member states, and were discouraged from making any contact with the Western world.What Stalin’s actions unarguably did was start a string of chain-reactions within the western powers, and therefore, a good deal of the blame must rest with him.He called for a western alliance to combat the threat.The goal was to force western powers from West Berlin by reducing it to the starvation point.

During the days of Manifest Destiny, the concept of westward expansion was seen as a harbinger of great things to come.(Lubragge) In other words, there is an immorality present within the concept of colonial and territorial expansion.The complete article can be found in The Making of America Series at Cornell University .Excerpted from “The Great Nation of Futurity,” The United States Democratic Review, Volume 6, Issue 23, pp.passage that such expansion was considered a “God given right” by those who are doing the colonizing.

In it he claimed that American history had been a study of expansion and settlement of a succession of “Wests”: the West beyond the Atlantic Coast, the Appalachian West, the Old Northwest, the Mississippi Valley, the Western Plains, the Old Southwest, and the Far West.With the motivation, the people, and a plan, western settlement that had been predicted to take centuries was accomplished in decades.The West saw remarkable population growth in the 1870s and 1880s, though this growth was by no means evenly spread across the western lands.The United States Western frontier was redefined by the Louisiana Purchase (1803).Gradually the Western Frontier was seen as the Appalachian Mountains.

Following 1730, the alterations in economic activity caused a rapid increase in the growth of population.Important technological improvements, such as the “flying shuttle,” improved efficiency and speed in the production of certain products.These changes resulted from overseas expansion and increasing commercial dominance.Capitalism, or the investment of funds in hope of larger profits, also broadened from large trading companies and resulted in the increased production of goods.Internally, the developments of the Renaissance continued, to be succeeded scientifically by the Enlightenment and religiously by the Protestant and Catholic reformations in the sixteenth century.

They also believed that the peaceful economic expansion policy would show Japan weak.It began to lose confidence in Western political ideas of democracy.The western powers had severe economic difficulties.Secondly, externally, in diplomatic aspect, due to the Western discrimination was one of the factor that led to the rise of militarism.This idea became stringer in 1920s, when they were discriminated by the west, they missed the time when they won wars, it made them more determine to have military expansion.

This refers to the westward expansion of the United States.Midwestern industrialization and the american manufacturing belt in the ineteenth century.The status of the midwestern farmer in 1900.It is clear from the evidence given that westward expansion and industrial development truly were factors in the protests of farmers.The Journal of Economic History, 49(4), 921-937 Shannon, F. (1950).