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by Symmetry 5298 days ago
"Conquest" wasn't ever a word commonly used by those particular Europeans that ended up later forming the USA, though. That was how the Spanish talked about what they were doing. The English ideology was all about "settling" or "colonizing". The English didn't see the natives as a resource to be exploited by an obstacle to be either ignored to negotiated with. This later caused many problems due to the English and Native Americans having very different notions of property and what buying land meant.
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"""This later caused many problems due to the English and Native Americans having very different notions of property and what buying land meant."""

Yeah, especially as for the English it meant "taking your land for peanuts".