Question

By 1820 conflict between white settlers and native groups was a common feature of life in the West. Looking at the 19th century write ONE short paragraph of 4-6 sentences that gives an overview of relations between the many tribes and the U.S. government.
Choose TWO of the following sub-topics and include them in your brief commentary.

a. Trail of Tears
b. Dawes Act Reservations
c. Assimilation
d. Indian Wars

The expansion of slavery was the issue of the 1850s in the United States.
Consider the following events of that decade and give a short but specific overview of what they were and what they meant.

a. Kansas Nebraska Act
b. Popular Sovereignty

Answer 1

By the later half of the nineteenth century native American Indians were pushed off to the Great American Desert. Americans wanted to reach manifest destiny and hence moved westward which made the native Americans to forcefully move out of their lands and paved way for American Indian wars.

Explanation:

The western lands belonged to the Indians and they  felt they were being forcefully displaced from their lands. Americans also wanted to constructed railroads across the country and unfortunately these weer on the lands occupied by the native Americans.

The Trail of Tears was when the United States government forced Native Americans to move from their homelands in the Southern United States to Indian Territory in Oklahoma. Peoples from the Cherokee, Muscogee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole tribes were marched at gunpoint across hundreds of miles to reservation lands.

The Indian Removal Act was passed by Congress in 1830. The actual removal of the Native American tribes from the South took several years. It began with the removal of the Choctaw in 1831 and ended with the removal of the Cherokee in 1838.