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1、historicalbackgroundofMarkTwain'stimeGoldrush&WestwardexpansionTheGoldRushWestwardExpansionTheGoldRushisanimportantpartoftheWestwardExpansion.WestwardExpansionTime:late18C---late19Candearly20CEvents:AmericanRevolutionThePurchaseofLouisianaWarof1812TheTex
2、asannexedTheCaliforniaGoldRushTheCivilWarReason：TheBritishProclamationof1763aboutprohibitingimmigrationintothewestofAppalachians(阿巴拉契亚山)hasbeabolishedbyAmericangovernmentTheneedsofmorelandThesupportofthegovernmentWestwardExpansionProcessProcessIttookAmer
3、icancolonistsacenturyandahalftoexpandasfarwestastheAppalachianMounts,afewhundredmilesfromtheAtlanticcoast.Ittookanother50yearstopushthefrontiertotheMississippiRiver.By1863,fewerthan100,000pioneershadcrossedtheMississippi.Stage1Stage2By1850,pioneershadpus
4、hedtheedgeofsettlementallthewaytoTexas,theRockyMountainandthePacificOcean.ThousandsoffamilieschalkedGTT(GonetoTexas)ontheirgatesorontheirwagons,andjoinedthetrekwestward.Stage3ManifestDestiny天定命运论ThebeliefthatitwasUSdestinytoexpandtowardsthePacific&perhap
5、sfurther&tospreaditsversionofdemocracy&freedom.SignificanceByexpandingthenation’sborderstoincludemorethan3millionsquaremiles,theUnitedStatesbecameoneofthemostpowerfulnationsofthe20thcentury.Forgoodorill,theWestwardExpansionoftheseAnglo-Americansettlerswa
6、soneofthemostinfluentialforcestoshapeNorthAmericanhistory.However,thisexpansionalsoresultedingreatsuffering,destruction,andculturallossfortheNativeAmericansofNorthAmerica.TheTrailofTearsTheTrailofTearsisanamegiventotheforcedrelocationofNativeAmericannati
7、onsfromsoutheasternpartsoftheUSfollowingtheIndianRemovalActof1830.Withthewestwardexpansion,alargenumberofIndiansdiedontheroutetotheirdestinations,thesurvivorswereforciblyrushedtothemoredesolate“Reservations",andtheforcedmigrationroadofIndians,alsoknownas
8、"Tearsoftheroad."TheTrailofTearsAmericanIndiansTodayThereweremorethan5millionIndianslivinginAmericanbeforeWestwardExpansion.Nowadays,2.5millionstillliveintheUS.AmericanvaluesdevelopedfromAmericanWestwardExpansionSelf-relia
