The white Americans viewed Native Americans as such a threat as they considered native Americans to be primitive.
Answer: The White Americans considered Native Americans to be primitive.
Explanation:
The white Americans believed that it was very hard for them to stay among the natives Americans. They felt that they were very raw and uncivilized. The colonists started enslaving the native Americans and they resisted.They both had a common problem of land.
As the European Americans wanted land they started taking the natives tribal land. The white Americans thought that they were hurdles in their path. They found the natives to be totally strange. They wanted the natives to be subdued so that they can be higher than the natives. They imposed reservation of land and they made the native people to accept