1 Study Source A. Use the source and your own knowledge to explain why so many men volunteered to fight Native Americans in the 1860s.
The first half of the nineteenth century saw a massive and rapid expansion of the American West. By 1860 nearly half of present-day America lay between its western and eastern frontiers: 500 million hectares of land made up of the Great Plains, the Great Basin and the Rocky and Sierra Nevada mountains. The inhabitants of this great wilderness included 300,000 Native Americans, some of them forced there from the East under the 1830 Indian Removal Act, and a small but growing number of white farmers, prospectors, trappers and traders.
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