Arguments Against Westward Expansion

Westward Expansion Although the United States had good reasons for kicking the Indians off their land like mining and housing for the extreme population growth, the United States wasn't justified in its treatment of the Native Americans during the period of Western Expansion. The United States forced the Indians to move from their land and go more west every time they kept finding gold. The Indians had been there for years before the Americans even started their colonies so they had ancestral burial grounds all over the middle and western United States. They didn't want to leave their land so they tried to fight but most of the time the ended up losing. At the battle of Custer's Last Stand their losing streak ended with what some say