Westward Expansion made Native Americans move to another place that they did not like.
Several hundred books could be written on this one subject alone, and in fact there have been several hundred books written on it. The major factor involved with westward expansion was violent confrontation due to polar opposite forms of Culture and Government.
The Indian Removal Act forced the Native Americans to move on to reservations, while their children were taken and forced to abandon their religion, culture, and language. Any opposition from the Native Americans was quickly shut down by the U.S government.
Also, the Trail of Tears caused much sorrow and loss of life because of the long trek through the wilderness.
Westward expansion drove Native Americans off their land. Many battles were fought and a lot of lives were lost. Native Americans were eventually forced to live on designated reservations.
Westward expansion meant the end of the Buffalo hunt for the Plains Indians and the introduction of disease and alcohol. Native populations saw their land disappear as thousands of settlers moved to mining towns and to farming areas that had previously belonged to the tribes. Westward expansion decimated the Native population.
Native Americans hunted buffalo, using every portion of the animal to live. White men determined to subdue native cultures began a concerted effort to rid the Plains of buffalo, driving the species into near extinction. While such actions may have been premeditated, in other cases they involved adventurers that hunted the animals purely for sporting pleasure. By 1893, fewer than 200 buffalo existed in the West.
Native Americans.
Native Americans were forced out of their homes during the expansion.
Westward expansion had a negative impact on Native Americans. Their whole way of life was taken away from them, along with the freedoms they had always known. They were removed from their land and placed on small reservations. Families were separated, and much of their culture was lost as the government tried to assimilate them into the white ways of life.
The Native Americans attempted to preserve their homelands from westward expansion, but would not succeed because there was a lack of unity, lack of leadership, and a diminishing culture.
They went Thur allot they had a lot to do to get where they need to.
The Native Americans.
The westward expansion had a negative effect on the Native Americans in that region. During the westward expansion, the Native Americans were forced to live on reservations that were deemed the worst land in the area.
Native Americans.
The displacement and slaughter of Native Americans.
It facilitated US westward expansion -- that was it's main purpose. It allowed white US citizens and immigrants to spread into and take land held by Native Americans.
Native Americans were forced out of their homes during the expansion.
Westward expansion had a negative impact on Native Americans. Their whole way of life was taken away from them, along with the freedoms they had always known. They were removed from their land and placed on small reservations. Families were separated, and much of their culture was lost as the government tried to assimilate them into the white ways of life.
The Native Americans attempted to preserve their homelands from westward expansion, but would not succeed because there was a lack of unity, lack of leadership, and a diminishing culture.
The Indian Removal Act forced the Native Americans to move on to reservations, while their children were taken and forced to abandon their religion, culture, and language.
Westward expansion had many effects on America. Many things developed such as the Pony Express, and other new forms of transportation such as the Continental Railroad. Although those were positive, some negative effects were how the Americans moving west drived native Americans out of their tribal lands and onto reservations. the wars with native Americans killed many of them.
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because the settlers were encroaching on the natives lands, and they wanted it back