Multiple treaties were made with the Native Americans; however, these treaties were rarely enforced and often broken, especially during the time of gold rushes. Once the United States had fully expanded to the West, it seemed like the only thing left to do was populate the area. However, there was a problem, Native Americans occupied and had occupied the Great Plains for hundreds of years. To solve this problem, the United Stated government created Native American reservations to avoid clashes over land boundaries between Native Americans and white settlers, and issued a series of treaties with the Native Americans in attempt to buy out their land and relocate them. By confining Native American tribes, the military could keep a watchful eye on their activity and occasionally provided for by federal effort.
The railroads also brought the riches of the West, thousands of tons of ore and cattle by the millions could now flow east to be processed and consumed. Migration to the west had its difficulties, and newly arrived Americans on the frontier clamored for a solution to what they called "the Indian problem." Sometimes the federal government led the way by making treaties or sending troops, but westerners also took matters into their own hands. They would burn villages and kill Cheyenne Indians wherever and whenever found. However, this action only led to war between the Indians and the whites.
“Grandpa killed Indians, Pa killed snakes for the land.” (34) Another Quote that proves Americans acquired the land and did not respect it. All the Americans affected by the Dust Bowl leaved their homes to go west to the Promised Land. “The settlement of America may be seen as a process of ever westward expansion in search of the Eden which seemed to recede.” (Owens, 47) Even at the beginning of America people looked westward. “And the beauty and fecundity of California seemed to fulfill that promise.” (48) Once everyone reached California and realized that it was not what it was supposed to be they were devastated. People started to sin much more and corruption arose.
A: The major issues Batolome de las Casas bring up is Spanish cruelty towards the Indian people. 7. Identify one early and one subsequent motive that drove Columbus to oppress indigenous peoples. A: one early and subsequent motive that drove Columbus to oppress indigenous peoples was that in return for bringing back gold and spices Columbus was promised 10 percent of the profits, governorship over new-found lands, and the fame that would go with the title:
‘That act intensified nationalism all over the world... it encouraged further protectionism and led to a further decline in world trade’ an economist ii. ‘The world is paying for its ruthless destruction of life and property in the World War and for its failure to adjust purchasing power to productive capacity during the industrial revolution of the decade following the war’ Reed Smoot, Republican Senator for Utah, driving
The Common Dissent After a thirty-year presidency, Porfiro Diaz’s centralized agrarian policies favoring the elite haciendas had caused formidable rebellions in the North and South of Mexico. Diaz established many new technologies and industries only to appeal to the greater European investors. These industries, such as mines and sugar plants, robbed the people of their land, dehumanized working conditions and cut minimum wages resulting in major dissent among the suffering middle class. By October of 1910, during Madero’s release from prison, militant rebellions led by local leaders erupted in the North and South states killing several units of Federal troops. Separated geographically, Poncho Villa in the North and Emiliano Zapata in the South contrasted in both their origin and military strategy, while
Zinn pointed out, “Jackson land speculator, merchant, slave trader, and the most aggressive enemy of the Indians in the early American history”. Zinn also pointed out, “He became a hero of the War of 1812, which was not... just a war against England for survival, but a war for the expansion of the new nation, into Florida, into Canada, into Indian territory”. Jackson was well involved in dealing with Native Americans prior to becoming president. Due to advancing into Indian territory for U.S. expansion, as stated he became the most despised enemy of the
The social economic impact brought many settlers to the northern part of California, and the discovery of “gold” brought on the American conquest in 1848. According to text; The Devil in Silicon Valley, Arthur Stephen Pitti discuses on page 32-33, how the discovery of gold in Northern California brought many settlers; as well as many immigrates, to this state right after the war. Before the California Gold Rush; “165,000 people lived in California and the vast majority of them (150,00 were Indians)”; and in 1848 a big demographic and economic change accord which was brought on by the gold rush. The discovery of gold by James Marshall, “would leak out, and the rush to California was on.” Stephen Pitti best describes it best, “As battle smoke cleared and the ink dried on the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, many of the Americans who flooded into the state anticipated the sharp decline of Mexican Americans’ cultural and political influence. While more distant Southern California towns such as Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and San Diego certainly experienced tumult as a result of the mineral discoveries in the Northern California foothills and many more gold-seekers passed through the San Francisco Bay area, including San Jose, on the way to the Mother Lode.” The
Killing buffalo began in the 1860s as the transcontinental railroads pushed west, and it stepped up as settlers found they could harm the Indians by harming the buffalo. The railroads were heavily encouraged by the federal government, particularly where private and foreign investment was lacking due to the risk of fluctuations inherent in the emergent capitalist economy. Between 1865-1900 the federal government gave millions of acres of land and cash loans to aid railroad construction.. Government policy created Northwest Railroad Act to influence agriculture growth. The Morrill Land Grant Act gave money and land to build
Since it was a federal bill, the south, of course, blocked this bill which escalated the tensions as high as they had ever been before. One year later, 1847, John Calhoun comes out and publicly says that slavery is legal in all territories because they aren’t yet a state. Then later that year, Stephen A. Douglas, an Illinois senator, promoted Lewis Cass’s idea of popular sovereignty. Popular Sovereignty let the people of the territory vote themselves whether slavery should be legal or not. In 1849, the California Gold Rush exponentially populated Northern California.