Spain's primary activity to stop westward expansion was to cut off access to the mouth of the Mississippi River, making the Western area mostly unusable to the USA. With the US purchase of the Louisiana Territory in 1803, Spain was stripped of the ability to cut off the Mississippi River and no longer was able to do anything to prevent the extension of the US frontier.
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King George the III wanted To stop the fear of the Indians attacking and to stop the colonist from moving over the Appalachian mountains (west).
Pontiac captured three important forts in the west frontier from the British. He was the Ottawa chief of Native Americans.
He persuaded the governor of Virginia that he was right. Clark raised an army. He and his men captured British in the West.
George Rogers Clark and some Virginia militia set out to end the British attack on Western Settlers in the frontier. Clark's victories strengthened the American positions in the West.