Westward expansion
What Westward expansion means in History B Schools History Project GCSE, as defined for OCR.
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As the United States expanded westward, the balance of power between free and slave states became highly contentious.
The mass slaughter of the buffalo by white hunters was facilitated by expanding railroads.
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