The essential question from class was, Did the government have good intentions from enacting policies for westward expansion? In what ways did this affect the Buffalo soldiers and Native Americans? I do not think that the government had good intentions when enacting policies for westward expansion. They ended up killing a number of tribes that included Sioux, Dakota, Nakota and Lakota. The reason this happened was because the government wanted to expand into the Midwest and they needed for troops. The Buffalo soldiers saw this as a opportunity to get respected and well feed. I don't think that the government had good intentions because i think they knew that the Native American would fight back so they brought soldiers in.
The government declared a state of total war which meant destroy everything and anything you can. After everything that was said and done, most of the Native Americans land and people were destroyed, the government left 90% of the land to the public. To answer the essential question, I do not think that the government had good intentions when trying to expand westward because they knew that the Native Americans would fight back. Yet they still declared a state of total war.
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