MacDonald’s National Policy. It was supported by the farmers of the West and rejected by the business owners of the East. Company of One Hundred Associates – A group of French investors that established a trading and investment company in 1627. The King of France promised them exclusive ownership over the fur trade as long as they invested their money in New France and helped to bring more French Catholics to New France. Seven Years War – - The final stage of a century long battle fought between the British and the French.
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.
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.
In Central America, the conquistadors, along with some rival native tribes, annihilated the Aztecs, enslaved them, and proceeded onto systematically destroying the other local Native Americans. The conquistadors proceed to take all of Central America, taking the Indian population in Mexico from 20 million to 2 million in less than a century. All of this can be summed up in one word, genocide. The Conquistadors wiped out a people, and a culture. These are the actions that make these hardy adventurers look like villains.
Chapter 1 Chapter 1, entitled Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress depicts the Europeans’ initial encounter with the Arawak Indians of the West Indies . The Arawaks greeted Columbus and his crew with hospitality, but little did they know they would soon be taken advantage of and have their culture virtually destroyed. Columbus’s journal entries about this first meeting indicate his feelings of superiority to the Arawaks, which led to enslavement, murder, and rape. The Arawaks were forced to work in gold mines and were killed at the will of the Europeans. Millions of natives were killed in slavery, war, and, mining.
The war started when English magistrates tried to Christianize the Indians in order to begin making them members fit for a civil society. They would enforce strict laws and procure reparations from the Indians when breaking the same laws. Then Jesuit missionaries from France began traveling from Sachim to Sachim inviting the Indian tribes into a confederacy against the English in return for supplies and payments. In 1675 the conflict the ensued would be the most destructive in American history relative to the size of the population. In all twelve out of ninety towns were destroyed and five percent of New England's population was killed.
In 1830 the railroad expansion from 73 miles in 1830 to 30,636 miles in 1860 which trespassed into Native American homelands, violating the treaty of Fort Laramine. Thousands of Indians were forced into reservations, which was another violation of the treaty of Fort Laramine. In result of the expansion into Native American homelands destroyed the civilization. When the western settlers hired men to kill buffalo off buffalo it rapidly reduced the population of the sacred animal to the Indians. This also destroyed the traditional use of the buffalo.
The Spanish began to crush the Southwest Indians military, enslave and Christianize them. The Spanish in an act of intolerance began to establish churches and missions in New Mexico to convert local Indians. Slavery continued until Popes rebellion in 1680 leading to more violence and bloodshed. The Spanish used religion and justification for enslavement and exploitation as well as for the destruction of the Indians cultures. This made religious centers of the Spanish a main target for the
They were treated in much the same way that the freed slaves had been treated following the Civil War. They were driven from their homes and their jobs, tortured, murdered, and lynched. Thirty-one Chinese miners in Washington State were mutilated and murdered by a group of white vigilantes in what was called the Snake River Massacre. None of the white men were found guilty of the crimes. In Tacoma, six hundred Chinese residents were chased from their homes and their houses were burned, and in Rock Springs, Wyoming, twenty-eight Chinese men were killed and the remaining men were forced out.
The Spanish came to the new word as conquerors. They forced tens and thousands of Indians to work in the gold and silver mines. They also established the top down royal governance and attempted to extend recent centralization to the new world. They established repartimento which declared Native Americans to be free but required them to work for the Spanish settlers. The Spaniards were very brutal, they tortured, raped