Opprotunity and the Expansion Westward- Module 5

When the revolution got under way the main idea was to get away from British rule and create our own ways of doing things. America and all of its children were given a voice, or given the opportunity to create a voice.
After the war women and minorities didn’t prosper right away. But they did gain enough rights to start to join together and share their knowledge. Or gather enough courage to speak up. Like when Abigail Adams wrote a letter to her husband John Adams telling him husbands need to be nice to their ladies, or they might rebel(Zinn 86). Its not much in terms of passing it as a law or creating a committee, but it is putting it in his head that something needs to be done because women had enough power to fight back and do something about it.
This same creation of opportunity goes for all American minorities. They had received enough freedom to create meetings and committees to rise up and fight their problems.
With the opportunity of minorities and poor people to speak up and have freedom, they were able to go off on their own and expand westward. The expanding American culture meant that the Indian culture would be slowly diminishing. Of course the Indians didn’t like that their land was being taken over. The Americans had to do something about this because they didn’t want the Indians to revolt, but they wanted their land. So laws like the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and the Intercourse Act of 1790 (Faragher 219) were set forth. These laws made a poor attempt of trying to help the Indians out by not taking all of there land and setting up opportunity for trade. But the strength of Manifest Destiny overtook the weak laws and eventually led to Americans traveling all the way west, to the great Pacific Ocean, knocking out almost all the Indians in their path.