USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Between 1795 and 1809, about 48 million acres of Indian land was acquired by the United States. As settlement became more widespread, some Indians began to adopt aspects of Western culture, weakening the importance of their own customs. Many Native American leaders opposed this trend.

Detailed explanation-2: -Starting in the 17th century, European settlers pushed Indigenous people off their land, with the backing of the colonial government and, later, the fledging United States.

Detailed explanation-3: -why did native americans resist white settlement on the western frontier? The Americans didn’t keep their promise, made them move more west. Promised them land but kept taking more. They starved the native Americans by killing all the buffalo, started assimilation.

Detailed explanation-4: -Relocation was either voluntary or forced. 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.