Westward expansion was much more than individuals taking land. There were military outposts, laws passed, articles written, battles fought, court cases argued,

Westward expansion was much more than individuals taking land. There were military outposts, laws passed, articles written, battles fought, court cases argued, protests, disagreements among Americans, etc. See this summary linked here and copied in full below: https://homework.study.com/explanation/how-did-americans-justify-westward-expansion.html https://homework.study.com/explanation/how-did-americans-jus... "How did Americans justify westward expansion?" "Americans justified westward expansion through the ideology of Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny was a term coined in the mid-1840s. It claimed that the United States was providentially designed to spread across the continent. Believing their "civilization" to be superior to Native and Mexican peoples, it supposed their lands should rightfully be part of the United States. This led to the brutal subjugation of Native tribes as millions of Americans flooded west in the decades after the Civil War."