The Age of Jackson | Manifest Destiny | 6
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The War of Extermination
Only 90,000 former Mexican residents now subject to American law and an even larger indigenous population. Native Americans had been at least prized as a source of labor under Mexican rule. But in the US, indigenous peoples were seen merely as obstacles to progress. Over next generation, Native people would be systematically excluded from citizenship.
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