4. After the messenger has reported to King Motecuhzoma of how the Spaniards have made the journey, what they saw and ate, the King was terrified. He was also terrified by their advanced cannon. When the messenger explained that their clothing is made of iron and their horses carry them wherever they wished to go, it was as if King’s heart has fainted. After being installed in the palace, the Spaniards demanded the gold from the natives, which brought it for them.
The interactions between Settlers and Native Americans can best be described as a shameful episode of American history. Over the course of 100 years, Native Americans were subjected to shameful acts including brutal treatment, broken treaties, and the destruction of their culture by white Settlers. The first century of the United States is filled with shameful words and acts of brutality toward Native American cultures. Founding fathers and ‘heroes’ such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson referred to Native Americans as “Wolves and beasts” and advocated efforts to “Pursue them to extermination.” These were not empty threats, as his actions toward Native Americans earned Washington the nickname “Destroyer of towns” as he promoted the slaughter of natives both hostile and otherwise. After that, future President Andrew Jackson promoted the wholesale slaughter and mutilation of natives in the 1830s, ordering his men to cut the noses off hundreds of slain natives to provide accurate body counts.
The only territory remaining were the American Indians located in Colorado. A major driving force that sparked this massacre was the gold and silver rush that attracted white settlers to this region. This created a considerable amount of anger toward the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians. Involvement of U.S settlers in their land produced violence between both parties, however, after the Civil war violence intensified even more. Throughout this historical era, a series of wars continued with U.S expansion for the rest of 19th century, however, the battle of Sand Creek illustrated a disturbing massacre by the United States that could have been avoided.
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They would kick the Indian out of their land and take it for their own, The United States quickly became one of the twentieth century’s most powerful nations after settling more than three million square miles of rich, diverse land. But despite all the riches it came at a great cost and destruction to the American Indians. The warfare between the US and the Indians began as early as 1809 and lasted until 1890, to which the Indians losing and being forced to live on reservations. Despite military involvement in early wars with the Indians, the final conquest was the white settlers wrestling land from them. One conflict was the gold rush of 1849, where some gold was found in what is now California, and millions of settlers went west to get rich on gold, and in the process fought with the Spanish who lived out there, and then killed many Indians who also settled in that land.
De’Ja Moore African-American Slave Trade 25 January 2012 11:00-11:50 De’ja Moore The African slave trade was made to dehumanize and demeaned the black man but I can’t figure out why people believe it was so harsh. Although I may have not been able to live in such harsh conditions but at the same this slave trade makes me who I am today. Although I don’t know where from, I am a decedent of an African slave that was once in slavery. I do believe that slavery was harsh and unimaginable but why should we only focus on the negative. The Europeans must had felt some type of superior to the Africans because why else would you want to dehumanize a person.
For some, the journey marked the end of their lives. Treated as cargo, many Africans experienced conditions that are hard to believe. The “superior” Europeans that considered Africans, savage and inferior, put these conditions upon them. When looking how the Europeans treated the Africans captives, however, it makes the Europeans look savage and inferior. Before looking at the conditions of the Middle Passage, it is important to understand the economics of the Slave Trade.
American Slavery in Comparative Perspective Sarah Rackliff No matter where you are in the world, being a slave is a terrible experience. The idea of slavery is wrong, and cannot be justified in any way. During the time of slaves, one third of the 10-15 million Africans sent to America landed in Brazil instead. Although slavery has always been cruel, there has been some debate over where the living conditions were better. In South America slaves had rights that slaves in the United States did not, however, the manner in which the slaves in South America were forced to live was much worse than the slaves in the U.S.
The act of slavery also caused other tensions. Of course the north and south showed austere relations (hence the civil war), as well as abolitionists and slave owners clashing out over whether slavery should be legal or eliminated. Frederick Douglass’ narrative helps demonstrate how throughout the whole nineteenth century, the relations in America could be thought of as austere because of the hostile remedies concerning the black race. -------------------------------------------- [ 1 ]. Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave (Boston: Bedford/ St. Martin’s, 2003), 69.
Some countries would like this reparation due to their loss of population as well. Africa isn’t the only place for slaves, but Africa will be most focused on. There were three types of slavery. These would include: indigenous, Arab/Indian Ocean, and Atlantic trade. The Atlantic slave trade was the most