西进运动对美国社会发展的影响

Influence of Westward Movement on America

美国的西进运动不仅促进了美国资本主义发展的资本原始积累过程,也极大地促进了美国西部地区的广泛开发和美国经济的快速发展。美国西部的开发过程是美国国内的一次大规模的移民迁徙运动,也是促使美利坚民族大融合的过程,这场运动对美国的经济、政治及美国民族精神的形成都产生了重大而深远的影响。

American westward movement was not only the process of original accumulation of capital in the development of capitalism , but the process of promoting extensive exploitation of the West and rapid development of economy. American western exploitation is the movement of extensive immigrants＇ understanding and has great influence on American economy, politics and the national spirit.