The correct answer to this open question is the following.
What do you believe would be an appropriate course of action regarding
Native American lands as the United States expands westward?
An appropriate course of action regarding Native American lands as the United States expands westward could have been a better will to dialogue and negotiate with the many Native American Indian tribes that lived in the region. That would have shown respect and tolerance on the part of the US federal government,
However, something different happened.
The Westward Expansion devastated the Native American Indians. The expansion removed the Indians from their original territories. White settlers started to occupy their territories under the protection of new legislation passed in the United States Congress. Farmers and miners settled in the Plains took the Indian's lands away and hurt Indians because they could not hunt animals in their former territories.
Indians tried to react and defend themselves by attacking the white settlers' homes, and wagons but their actions were limited.
Andrew Jackson encouraged westward expansion and settlement by supporting the Indian Removal Act
On May 28, 1830, United States President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act.
