The Westward Expansion In The 19th Century

The Westward Expansion Impact As the 19th century progresses, more and more settlers arrived in the US and the yearn for open space and freedom had grown tremendously. The US had decided to push westwards due to this.Thousands of settlers began to pour into the new land. Through the exciting and promising land acquisitions, there was a dark history behind the westward expansion that was never fully acknowledged. Although America had enforced westwards expansion, it did not acknowledge the Native Americans who had settled on the land decades before the white settlers had arrived. From as early as the original 13 colonies in 1776, white settlers had fought and removed the Native Americans from their home territory. Large land grants such as the Louisiana purchase of 1803 and the Treaty of Paris of 1783, had affected the Native Americans the most as that meant that more tribes on these land claims would be removed. From the early news of untouched land from Lewis and Clark, the American spirit had been invoked. With each additional land purchase, Indians had been removed onto reservations or onto neighboring territories. With all the news of expansion and land, there was something dark that lurks under all these utopian claims.
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It was a short-lived treaty as the flood of migrants came into the newly bought land grants. The Americans had not only betrayed the Indians, but they had also decided to ruin them through uncivilized violence. In Ohio, Native Americans formed a confederate to fight against the settlers since their pleas were muted by the US government. The Battle of Fallen Timbers pursued and Native Americans were forced off their land. At the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890, the US army shot and killed 300 (mostly unarmed) Indians as they had wanted to take away their guns on the reservation. With each battle, more Indians have fallen and more land is taken from