What is the importance of westward expansion?

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Roberson

6 February, 06:03

What is the importance of westward expansion?

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Justice Orozco · Answer 1

To Jefferson, westward expansion was the key to the nation's health

Elliot Dorsey · Answer 2

Well if you didn't know! To Jefferson, westward expansion was the key to the nation's health: He believed that a republic depended on an independent, virtuous citizenry for its survival, and that independence and virtue went hand in hand with land ownership, especially the ownership of small farms.