The last article said that the westward movement was a history of Indian blood and tears, but objectively it was a history of American entrepreneurship, which made the United States successfully realize the rise of a great power.

First of all, it is reflected in territorial expansion. The large increase in land area has led to the rapid growth of American population, and a large number of immigrants have flooded into the United States. Large-scale immigration has made the United States a museum of ethnic groups, and all ethnic groups and nationalities in the world are available.

People from all directions are building this country with their diligence and wisdom, and creating their own new life with enterprising spirit.

Belief and yearning for the beautiful world in the west make adventurers completely fearless of difficulties and even death. This tenacity and determination evolved into the "American spirit" in the westward movement.

Secondly, the "American spirit" created by the westward movement runs through key words such as freedom, equality, competition, rights, adventure, innovation, pioneering and enterprising. The pioneering and innovative spirit makes Americans have distinct personality characteristics, and "just do it" has become the norm for every American.

The vast and rich land in the west has enabled people to truly realize personal freedom, which has also brought individualism that affects all fields of social life. Americans respect those who succeed by their own efforts, especially those who overcome major obstacles to succeed.

So America likes to tell stories about individual heroism. The classic image of a personal hero is a cowboy who broke into the west alone and defended justice in his early years. In the IT era, he became Jobs, Bill Gates and Zuckerberg who dropped out of Harvard. There are many ways to promote individual heroism in Hollywood movies, which are about the core values of the United States.

The specific environment of the westward movement also produced the philosophical values of American pragmatism, that is, to survive by action. Pragmatic, pragmatic and utilitarian pragmatism is a kind of mentality and a dominant lifestyle of Americans.

The most critical concept of the American spirit is the so-called autonomy. For example, the freedom to hold guns, the tradition of Americans opposing big government and the tradition of Americans opposing the government's excessive involvement in private life can all be said to come from the concept of autonomy.

The westward movement made the United States come from behind in world history.