USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Indian Wars were a protracted series of conflicts between Native American Indians and white settlers over land and natural resources in the West.

Detailed explanation-2: -Native Americans believed land belonged to the community, not to individuals. They didn’t own land the ways homesteaders conceived of ownership. This conceptual difference raised conflicts between settlers and Native Americans. The Homestead Act increased the number of people in the western United States.

Detailed explanation-3: -But between 1622 and the late 19th century, a series of wars and skirmishes known as the Indian Wars took place between American-Indians and European settlers, mainly over land control.

Detailed explanation-4: -These Indian nations, in the view of the settlers and many other white Americans, were standing in the way of progress. Eager for land to raise cotton, the settlers pressured the federal government to acquire Indian territory.