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Was Westward Expansion a good thing for America?

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Yes, it was a bittersweet thing. The main bad part of it was that the Native Americans lost a lot of land. It was sad, because a lot of native Americans lost land that rightfully belonged to them.
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Yes because it led to railroads in the industrial revolution
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