American westward expansion in the 19th and 20th centuries influenced the regional and ethnic identities of the United States
C.Settlers lived a nomadic and violent lifestyle as they fought to protect their caravans and searched for isolated places to create new communities
Explanation:
American westward expansion in the 19th and 20th centuries is one of the phenomenons the hurt the ethnic culture native to the Americas the most out of all.
The natives had survived until then by living in the west in their own cultures which were now being invaded by the increasingly violent white settlers who were trying to grab away their lands where they as nomads had lived for centuries.
The influence on the regional and ethnic identities was that there was a cleansing of the native population by the white settlers.
A. Of Plymouth Plantation
