20. Americans Wanted to Push West, but Native Americans Were in the Way
The American government did a pretty satisfactory job of getting rid of the Native Americans in New England, the Atlantic states, and the American South by either killing them or pushing them west. As America began to grow more during the 1800s, the people were gripped by an idea known as Manifest Destiny, which basically stated that the whole continent was theirs for the taking. The problem was that the Native Americans were in the way.
