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Did the US simply inherit lands stolen from the Native Americans by the British or did they steal land too?
Alexisdesaintmichel
While the United States certainly received some territories from the British (that had been previously stolen from the Native Americans), there are significant amounts of territories that the US government stole from the Native Americans as well.
One of the British conditions of settlement was the Proclamation of 1763, which required that colonists only settle east of the Appalachian Mountains. The territory allocated to the US in 1783 stretched from the coast to the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, nearly 1000 kilometers further west than the British proposed boundary of settlement. When those western territories were under British control, they were kept exclusively for Native American use with the exception of guard posts and forts. When they shifted to the United States, they became areas of White American settlement which ousted the Natives and forced a number of tribes either into open warfare with the Whites or a forced flight west of the Mississippi River. Of course, it only took until 1803 for the United States to acquire (from France) the west bank of the Mississippi River as well as much of the Great Plains areas. These two were settled by White Americans and stripped of their native populations through acts of violence and warfare. This repeated again after the United States conquered the southwest from Mexico in 1848 and "won" the Oregon territory in 1853. There was an incredible amount of violence perpetrated by the US government or that of the States individually against the Native American Tribes to strip them of their land and culture. Some highlights include: Trail of Tears, the Wars Against the Seminoles, Wounded Knee, the Homestead Act, etc.
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