The Meaning of Progress
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Whites and Native Americans differed greatly in their view of the meaning of progress. The white settlers were from a capitalistic system, while the Native Americans had a more communal economic system. This alone gave the two groups differing perspectives. The white settlers saw progress in terms of manifest Destiny, as stated by thomas Jefferson, the idea that as a people they were fated to expand their dominion from one ocean to the next and so to dominate the continent. The Native Americans were in their own way just as warlike, but they directed their hostility to neighboring tribes without ever forgetting that they were indeed neighbors, with their own regions, their own beliefs, and their own attitudes. The Native Americans tended to see other beliefs as manifestations
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