In the following month, Bacon died suddenly and his rebellion immediately collapsed. The governor took revenge upon Bacon's followers, executing some and confiscating the property of others. Bacon's Rebellion revealed the mixed motivations and tangled outcomes of warfare in colonial America. The revolt changed little within the colony; gentlemen continued to monopolize the best land, the highest offices, and the most slaves. The Indians suffered the most.
For example, during King William's (1689–97), Queen Anne's (1702–13), and King George's (1744–48) Wars, the French supported Algonquian raids against the English colonies, while New England's domesticated Indians and certain Iroquoian allies aided the English. In the French and Indian War, the French and their mostly Algonquian allies initially made impressive strides toward controlling the Ohio Valley, beginning with Braddock's Defeat (1755), only to be overcome by the more numerous English and their Iroquoian supporters. Indians fought as European allies in these wars to advance their own perceived interests in acquiring weapons and other trade goods and captives for adoption, status, or revenge. Until the end of the French and Indian War, Indians succeeded in using these imperial contests to preserve their freedom of
After interviewing individuals living in the 1930’s, Mari Sandoz wrote the biography of Crazy Horse, with vivid details regarding cruelty and the governmental overtaking of the Indians’ homeland. Sandoz writes through the eyes of an Indian, using their language style to capture the essence of the times. Although it was sometimes difficult to follow because of my unfamiliarity with the language, there are great lessons to be gained by following the life of Crazy Horse. The United States government, our government, compromised and prepared treaties with the Indians as they tried to capture their homeland. As the Indians were pushed and confined, they were forced to succumb to the all-mighty government who made promises they did not intend to keep and were solely focused on their own interests.
In the 18th Century in North America the Frenchmen from Canada and Englishmen from Britain had their regions. The region where they traveled was mostly occupied by the Native Americans that owned most of the wildlife. As population grew bigger by the British colonies they started to look for the lands across the Appalachian Mountains for settlement and growth. The Great Lakes, Mississippi River, Ohio River valley and St. Lawrence River, were owned by the French and they didn’t want the Englishman into their part of the region. The French decided to build Forts so the English settlers could not establish in their region.
For example there were the Delaware Indians that, similar to Tecumseh, had tried for years to hold onto their tribal lands but regardless of their treaties and pleading for government assistance, witnessed the incoming settlers take as they pleased and even sell as their own to others the Delaware lands. (Donald H. Kent) There was the infamous event known as the Trail of Tears, the many instances of countless Indians massacred in their villages by the Army and their continual forced movement by the United States, eventually leading to their resettlement onto reservation land that was far less suitable than the land stolen from them. The United States Government owes the Original Americans very much. So much it could never be
The fur trade was one of the earliest and most important industries in North America. The fur trading industry played a major role in the development of the Canada for more than 300 years. Native tribes entered into allegiances with the European settlers from different countries and found themselves at war with their enemies for gift diplomacy. The French at the St. Lawrence River established an alliance with the Huron and the Algonquians in a pit against the 5 nations Iroquois, who had allied with the Dutch and then British. However this was to be short lived and led to the near extinction of an entire diversely widespread race.
His battles were so successful he earned the name “Town Destroyer” by the Iroquois Indians. After his successful campaigns during the French and Indian war George became the front runner in the Virginian military. But before the Revolution he mainly tended his lands around Mount Vernon. However, as a land owner George felt
While some groups favored escaping white harassment through resettlement, many more opposed the idea of leaving their ancestral homes. Their desire to stay was reinforced by the unhappy experiences of small groups of Cherokees, Delawares, Shawnees, and others who had accepted a land exchange and gone westward between 1785 and 1800. After the War of 1812 and the elimination of the British as a potential ally, Indian removal became a basic item in virtually all treaties with Native groups. In 1817 John C. Calhoun, a strong advocate of Indian removal, was named secretary of war by James Monroe. Calhoun joined forces with the war hero Andrew Jackson and Lewis Cass, governor of Michigan Territory, to urge formal adoption of a removal
The expansion of the borders of the English territory through the Treaty of Paris of 1763 created a strain between Political relations with Great Britain. During the war, the Indians fought alongside France to hopefully keep the white
Negroes were brought in as indentured servants but later on sentenced to slavery as they tried to escape from there service. The idea of slavery wasn’t new to the colonies but enslavement of Negroes spread like a wildfire. Millions of slaves were brought in to serve the white masters. Slaves were brought in cargoes in heavy