EMERGENCE OF USA
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND ITS IMPACT
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European colonists drove them from the lands they lived on.
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hunting was poor in their original homes.
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they wanted good land for farming.
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they were trying to conquer the lands of other Indians
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Detailed explanation-1: -As British colonists encroached on Delaware territory on the East Coast, the Delaware were forced Westward. The 1758 Treaty of Easton compelled the Delaware into the Ohio territory.
Detailed explanation-2: -During the late 1780s, the Northwest Territory was a violent place as U.S. settlers moved onto land that several groups of American Indians had long claimed as their own. The United States government lacked the funds to equip an army to deal with the so-called American Indian threat adequately.
Detailed explanation-3: -By the eve of the American Revolution, most Delaware groups were living along the Ohio and Allegheny rivers. The pro-British Delaware groups were living in what is today the northwestern portion of Ohio, and pro-American Delaware groups were settled near the frontier city of Pittsburgh (Goddard 1978:222-223).
Detailed explanation-4: -In Ohio, the last of the prehistoric Indians, the Erie and the Fort Ancient people, were destroyed or driven away by the Iroquois about 1655. Some ethnologists believe the Shawnee descended from the Fort Ancient people. The Shawnees were wanderers, who lived in many places in the south.