How did westward expansion impact the native americans?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

Effect on Native PopulationsPlains Indians were driven from traditional lands by a variety of factors but the most important one was the sheer number of pioneers and adventurers crossing the continent. 223,000 Plains Indians, including the Five Friendly tribes in Oklahoma, lived in this region. In the Northern Plains, some 30,000 Sioux vigorously fought for their lands and it was these Indians that obliterated General Custer's command at the Little Big Horn in 1876.

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.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

The Native Americans sere pushed off their land and eventually to reservations.

Answer 6

the westward movement made the Native American population decrease between 1805 and 1900, compared to the non-Native Americans.

Answer 7

In what ways did westward expansion affect native life

Answer 8

Native Americans were oppressed and even slaughtered by American settlers/soldiers in fulfillment of America's manifest destiny.

Answer 9

the white men moved in