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Manifest Destiny Vs Louisiana Purchase

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As Americans set their course westward, their steadfast belief in manifest destiny was used as a means of justification for immoral actions taken against the Native Americans. Following the Louisiana Purchase, America gained 828,000 acres of land west of the Mississippi River. As a large populus of Americans abandoned the overcrowded cities from the east and west to unearth the riches it held. Native Americans who occupied that land, began to be pushed further away from the land cultivated by their ancestors. Fatal squirmishes frequently broke out between the Natives and settlers, President Andrew Jackson proposed a solution. Even in parliament the Indian Removal Act was controversial but ultimately was pushed through. In 1838, General Winfield
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