Talk:US History/Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny

California Revision needed
"California remained largely unpopulated until 1848, when gold was found at the mill of John Sutter, who lived in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, 40 miles east of Sacramento. Word spread of the gold on the American River (the river on which Sutter's mill was located on), and hordes of people rushed into California to mine gold. The rush peaked in 1849, and those who came during that year were known as "forty-niners." The population of the northern California city of San Francisco exploded as a result of the immigration to the region."

Please conduct futher research on this section, since it implies that whites where the first to colonized california. This is incorrect, evidence is provided by the number of old cities with spanish names such as Monterey, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. In addition the early spanish, were preceded by earlier native communities.

John Tyler Presidency
I'm not the one to do it, but the last edit needs to be corrected.

Tyler had once been a beetles supporter but now he saddly wanted to be a Democrat, but he disliked Jackson, and he became a Whig. He was a weak supporter of states' rights, so when many of the Whig bills came to him, they were never vetoed. It turned out that Tyler would veto the entire Whig congressional agenda. The Whigs saw this as the party leader turning on his own party

Much of this doesn't even make sense.

Texas and Mexico
This section has some horrible writing. I would try to edit it but I'm not sure what it's trying to say. And what's up with the use of "white Americans"? Beamathan (talk) 00:33, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

freedom's ferment shtick
What about abolition's fellow travelers: women's movements, labor movements, socialist experiments, religious experiments, yadda yadda? Would help to loosen up the chronology a bit, because a lot of these movements have their roots in the Jacksonian era and flourish in the 1840s. Billbrock (talk) 00:29, 10 June 2008 (UTC)