Reply #3: Not quite

[DangerDave921]

We started in on the Indians long before there were railroads. And even after railroads, I don't think there was much trouble with terrorism, or whatever that would have been called back then.

And actually there were plenty of peaceful pacts with Indian tribes. But of course as we wanted more land, we took it under the belief that our interests were more important than theirs, and that they were just savages.

Unfortunately, throughout all of human history, more powerful nations have taken land and materials from less powerful nations. It's just a fact of life. And Indian tribes were at war with other tribes too, and had their own version of slavery. So human history has a lot of ugly and brutal episodes in it. You can't act like the US is the one country who ever did this.