The West Exploiting An Empire Summary

The West: Exploiting an Empire

When the civil war was over, Americans believed expansion was their “manifest

destiny” and began moving in the west direction across the continent, conquering the

Native Americans through diverse means and created a North American Empire. The

Native Americans were pushed from their lands and forced to change their culture by the

end of the century because they were seen as threat that might hinder the White Americans

migration. The Indians abandoned their normal way of life and became the Plains Indians.

They took to unique culture based on nomadic hunting of the buffalo. The Plain Indians

Tribes consist of thousands but they lived in smaller bands of a hundred. The men and

women in equality