FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICANS
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Question
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Forced relocation from traditional lands to reservations
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Assimilation attempts and lifestyle changes
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Obtaining wealth-search for gold and silver
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Reduced population through warfare and disease
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Detailed explanation-1: -The sparsely populated western regions of the continent became folded into a nation with enormous potential for power. The hundreds of thousands of settlers who moved west established new communities. New territories gave the country access to greater natural resources and the Pacific trade.
Detailed explanation-2: -Army and militia patrols supervised the tribes’ westward journey. It is estimated that between 1830 and 1840 the government relocated more than 70, 000 Native Americans, thousands of whom died along what came to be known as the Trail of Tears.
Detailed explanation-3: -However, westward expansion provided the United States with vast natural resources and ports along the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts for expanding trade, key elements in creating the superpower America is today.
Detailed explanation-4: -A significant push toward the west coast of North America began in the 1810s. It was intensified by the belief in manifest destiny, federally issued Indian removal acts, and economic promise.