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It brought trade and early economic development to them, but it also brought disease, firearms and alcohol into a culture that had existed for thousands of years perfectly fine without them.

It also included free land, and if a man or boy was over the age of 18 they could marry and get over 160 acres of land.
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To be technical here, there is no such thing as a white american, they were European settlers and even "americans" today are mainly foreigners. Besides the point they drove the native americans west because Immigration was forcing them to expand to find land for people that were coming in.

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