Displacing Indigenous Peoples — History STD 11 Humanities — Question
CBSE BoardEnglish MediumSTD 11 HumanitiesHistoryDisplacing Indigenous Peoples3 Marks
Question
What did the 'frontier' mean to the Americans?
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Answer
Countries such as Canada and the United States of America emerged out of a fraction of the land colonised by Europeans at end of the eighteenth century. However, gradually, they expanded their territories through purchase and settlements.
For exam pie, the USA purchased land in the south from France (the 'Louisiana Purchase'), from Russia (Alaska), and occupied much of southern America from Mexico.
This territorial domination was done by cheating and killing the natives living in these areas.
This situation had created the western 'frontier' of the USA beyond which the natives were forced to move from their traditional territories.
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