How did American westward expansion impact Indigenous Peoples?
When Americans from the eastern part of the United States began moving west in large numbers in the mid-19th century, tensions escalated and conflicts erupted between and among settlers, railroad workers, ranchers, the U.S. military, and numerous Native American tribes.
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