Creating the United States

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At the close of the American Revolution, George Washington urged a comprehensive plan for peace with Native Americans. Washington argued that it would be easier to open the western territories to settlement by being on good terms with Indians and purchasing their lands, “in preference to attempting to drive them by force of Arms out of their Country.”

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“To suffer a wide extended Country to be over run . . .”


At the close of the American Revolution, George Washington urged a comprehensive plan for peace with Native Americans. Washington argued that it would be easier to open the western territories to settlement by being on good terms with Indians and purchasing their lands, “in preference to attempting to drive them by force of Arms out of their Country.”