Fernando Vargas Jr. 07/25/11 1) How has racist ideology and imagery been used to legitimate injustice in the United States? The racist ideology in America can be traced all the way back to the discovery of this country with Columbus. Plain and simple, Columbus exploited the Native Americans for personal gain as well for the gain of Spain and the rest of Europe (Shohat Stam). The Spaniards would go on to wreak havoc for the Natives that were settled along the southern parts of the United States, destroying one group after another. With the colonization of America in the 1600’s it would not take long to annihilate the customs and traditions of the Native Americans.
Morelista forces captured Oaxaca in 1812 and in 1813 Morelos convoked a congress in Chilpancingo, Guerrero. The manifesto issued by the congress, radical for its day, advocated abolition of slavery, breaking up monopolies, imposition of an income tax and deportation of all Spaniards from Mexico. Morelos then assembled an army of 5,600 and marched on Valladolid, his native city. Leading the city's defenders was none other than Iturbide. The radical Chilpancingo manifesto had disturbed many conservative creoles, including Iturbide, and they went over to the Spanish side.
The rich and vast culture the indigenous people had was completely destroyed by the Spanish. The primary purpose of the expedition was to convert the natives to Christianity and save them from eternal damage. The Spaniards that were sent did not follow the rules that were given to them. Instead the Spanish did what they wanted and killed most of the indigenous people and stole all of the gold on the islands. Most of the gold they took they kept for themselves and only gave a small amount back to the Spanish rulers.
The two groups went to war and the Native Americans targeted and killed many priests. - The New World challenged and changed the religious faiths the first European settlers brought to it. In New Mexico, the spiritual rituals of the Pueblo Indians collided with the Catholic of the Spanish Franciscan friars who came to convert them, ultimately exploding in violent rebellion. 2. Role of missionaries in the encounter between Native Americans and Colonists Missionaries came to save heathen souls.
Before the Civil War era, Columbus’ conquests for new lands lead to the genocide and enslavement of Arawak people who were obedient towards Columbus and his men. This quote from Howard Zinn, “Trying to put together an army of resistance, the Arawaks faced Spaniards who had armor, muskets, swords, horses. When the Spaniards took prisoners they hanged them or burned them to death. Among the Arawaks, mass suicides began, with cassava poison. Infants were killed to save them from the Spaniards.
The Mission is a movie that portrays the events that surround the implementation of the Treaty of Madrid in 1750. This treaty allowed the Portuguese to invade farther west in South America, and therefore take over the Jesuit missions land and capture the aboriginals and enslave them. The Jesuit missions goal was to convert the Aboriginals into Catholics and make them more knowledgeable about the outside world. The Mission depicts this situation accurately, by telling the story of a Spanish Jesuit priest named Father Gabriel. Father Gabriel goes into the wilderness of South America to start a mission and convert the Guarani Indians into Catholics, after the previous priest was attacked by them and nailed to a cross and thrown into the river
One of those things was to take complete control of all the land. They continued to expand their land into areas that were still inhabited by Indians. For a while, Englishmen tried soft tactics, but since Indians were not willing to give up their lands easily, the answer became annihilation. Englishmen’s views concluded that Indians were savages, and they had no right to own or exist on lands that God had given to the white men. Indians throughout were forced to surrender their lands, and although they put up resistance, it was not enough to stop settlers’ expansion and the Indian’s lands were violently taken, and many were killed in the process.
Section D Analysis In the beginning, the British first arrived in America in order to conquer more land under the British name. The British realized this was not possible after the Native Americans refused to give up their land. An “Indian removal” policy was put into action and the Natives began to be removed from their lands and relocated onto “camps”. The British used religion as an excuse for their actions as the treatment of the Natives became gradually worse. Documents prove that the British intentionally killed off the buffalo in areas populated by the Native Americans.
A class conflict disruption in 1676 started by Virginia farmers against the colonial authorities led by Sir William Berkeley, governor of Virginia, began when a group of former indentured servants led by Nathaniel Bacon, a young plantation owner, accused Governor Berkeley of failing to protect them from raids by Native Americans. Under Bacon's authority, the men formed an army to punish the raiding tribes. Berkeley denounced the men as rebels and accused them of attacking and killing not just hostile Native Americans, but members of friendly tribes. Here is a perfect example of how the division of classes became and got started. Simply the people felt it was their right to be protected and when it does not happen they make their move to make
Student: Marko Simovic Date: 9/21/2011 Subject: History 201 Teacher: Patrick O’Neil The significance of Native American and European interactions After Europeans discovered American continents and started exploring it, they found out that this continent was already inhabited by culturally and socially completely different people that they referred as Indians. The clash of these two totally different civilizations brought us to an entirely new era; the era of massive migrations that shaped the world map and brought the picture of world we know today. This encounter had many influences on both cultures; challenging Europeans conquer abilities and in same time giving Indians a sharp look on how does Eastern part of world looks like. When Europeans first came to North America, they did not have much respect for Indian culture and their way of living, calling them savage, lawless and rude without any laws or society organization. They are I