Question

What was a major negative consequence of manifest dentiny for indigenous peoples?

1) Increased political representation
2) Economic partnership
3) Forcible removal from their lands and confinement to reservations
4) Voluntary migration to canda

Answer 1

3) Forcible removal from their lands and confinement to reservations.

Manifest Destiny’s push for U.S. territorial expansion led to policies like the Indian Removal Act, forced relocations (e.g., the Trail of Tears), broken treaties, warfare, and confinement of many tribes to reservations—resulting in massive loss of land, lives, autonomy, and cultural disruption.