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Why did many Americans feel justified taking Native American and Mexican territories during westward expansion?

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Because Americans felt they were a better society and people than other groups of people (Mexicans/Native Americans) already living out West and somehow that justified them taking over the West. The Mexican government grew frustrated with them moving their illegally.

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