Native Americans During The Mid-Nineteenth Century

During the mid-nineteenth century, the U.S. government policies towards Native Americans were influenced to expand westward into territories surrounded by these Native Americans. Almost all Native Americans were found in the west of the Mississippi River. For the native Americans and white settlers, the U.S. government applied different policies. The economic development affected Native Americans by pushing them away from their homeland and limited their food. Also, the railroad constructed that time allowed resources to be transported to the west but it destroys the homes of many native tribes. While white settlers owned their land for their own benefit by forcing their way of living into the native tribes. Both natives and white settlers
government. The U.S. government forced Native Americans to live in certain areas called “Indian Reservations” because the U.S. government thought it would be fewer expenses and fewer Indian tribes to live in reservations. Also, the government made a deal of providing money to the native tribes in exchange for living on the reservation. But the reservation resulted in negative impact on Native Americans because it made them give up on their old ways of living, many native tribes lost their lives, create social inequality on Native American reservations, and they lacked different aspects of life such as quality of education, quality of healthcare which leads teenage pregnancy, violence, and suicide rates in high amount in reservations than the rest of the country. At last, reservations made them unaware about the outside development occurred in the United States and it also made them very uncultured groups among other different