What happened to native americans out in the west

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Introduction: For this week, we covered American history out in the West and looked at the opportunities the region offers to Americans. Moving west and doing God's work was presented as America's manifest destiny but that destiny came at what cost? Historian Eric Foner once wrote in his textbook Give Me Liberty that "nobody paid a higher price for American expansion/industrialization than Native Americans."

1. Assimilation, Colonialism, Ethnic Cleansing, Genocide" are the words that historians often used to describe what happened to Native Americans out in the West. Explain why historians would use such terminology.

2. What word would you use to describe the history between America and Native Americans out in the West after the 1840s? Explain your word.

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