One of the primary factors driving westward expansion in the United States, according to this history, was the displacement of poor farmers by the expanding slave plantation system and racial antipathy towards black slaves and freemen alike. Beginning with the colonial era in Virginia and ending with the settlement of Oregon just before the Civil W
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One of the primary factors driving westward expansion in the United States, according to this history, was the displacement of poor farmers by the expanding slave plantation system and racial antipathy towards black slaves and freemen alike. Beginning with the colonial era in Virginia and ending with the settlement of Oregon just before the Civil W
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