US founders designed westward territorial expansion from the nation’s outset

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• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: US founders designed westward expansion to seize Indigenous land; Founders disagreed sharply on the West; Federalists like Hamilton opposed westward expansion — The West and the Promise of Equal Opportunity; US conquest of the Sioux followed the classic stages of colonialism — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 480 (+2 more)

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• Founders disagreed sharply on the West; Federalists like Hamilton opposed westward expansion (similarity 0.83)
• US founders designed westward expansion to seize Indigenous land (similarity 0.82)