Territories West of the Mississippi
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The core event that ultimately led to the U.S. claiming control over territories west of the Mississippi was the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. The Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery literally opened the continent to the entire republic, partly because it was so well documented. It is important to note that Lewis and Clark relied on the services of Native Americans as guides, and especially Sacagawea, the woman who translated for them with various tribes through the Missouri and toward the northwest of the Purchase (Norton, et al. 222). Her helpfulness can be seen as symbolic of the innocence of the Indians, who were betrayed by the white-settlement juggernaut that was to come over the course of the 19th century.The implications of the expedition were not obvious to very many whites in the early 1800s, but people were acting on them all along, with settlers continually moving westward. White settlements had been displacing Native American populations for decades, and Indians had resisted violently. During the French/Indian War, Indians sided with the French against the British, whose colonists were the first settlers on Native American land. In 1761 the Cherokee War was supposed to have settled the question of land access via a treaty between Virginia and the Cherokee, but "land speculators and settlers . . . swarmed into Indian territory, secure in knowing that their provincial governments had neither the desire nor the power to do much about it" (Nash 261).
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