what happen when the White man begin to push the natives westward
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Answer: What happened was mass murder, expulsion, and land theft on a continental scale. It was one of the great crimes in history. But you know this. For details, see Dee Brown’s book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Native Americans did resist and in many cases attempt to revenge themselves, but against a modern army and an industrialized nation, they didn’t stand a chance. So e efforts at armed resistance were made in the 1970s, notably at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of an infamous US Army massacre in 1890 of unarmed people, including hundreds of Lakota women and children, at the Pine Ridge Reservation. Things have become vastly more lopsided since. So even if Native Americans still wanted revenge, any attempt at it would be futile. Whether in principle it might be justified is not for me to say. One could hardly blame them for wanting it. I’m sure they know it would be wholly self-destructive.
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Factors encouraging people to go West
The Homestead Act, 1862
This allowed homesteaders to claim 160 acres of land free if they lived and worked on it for five years. The prospect of free land was very attractive to people who could never have afforded a farm back home.
Railroads
In order to encourage the railroad companies to build the transcontinental railways, the government gave them a two-mile stretch of land either side of the railroad - part of the companies' profit came from selling this land. Therefore they launched a massive sales campaign, offering a 'settlement package', which included:
a safe, cheap and speedy journey westtemporary accommodation in 'hotels' until the families had built their own homeother attractions such as schools, churches and no taxes for five years.
Manifest destiny
The idea grew up that white Americans were superior, and that it was America's manifest destiny (obvious fate) to expand and encourage 'the American way of life' on the Great Plains. The writer Horace Greeley, who popularised this idea, advised Americans: 'Go West, young man'.
Tall tales
Once the population of an area reached 60,000, it could apply to become a state of the USA. Local governments therefore encouraged publicity campaigns which claimed (for example) that farmers in the west could grow pumpkins as big as barns and maize as tall as telegraph poles. Many people moved west thinking they would make a fortune.