The United States’ march across North America to establish a transcontinental republic seems, in retrospect, almost preordained. In the American Revolution’s aftermath, there was no shortage of Americans who looked westwards and envisaged the new country’s eventual expansion to the Pacific. Indeed, one factor contributing to the outbreak of the War of Independence had been Britain’s attempts to prevent American colonists from settling in the North American territories acquired from France following Britain’s victory in the French Indian War and the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
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