(oi) One big reason many people were moving west was to be able to live with the Homestead Act. (3) Under the Homestead Act, each homesteader, or home owner, obtained 160 acres of land from the government. (3) The act was a really big reason people moved west because everyone wanted the free good farming land from the government. Homes were a big part of settlers moving west because the West had very good timber to build houses, and very good land to start a house. (6b) Another reason people were moving west is that many people wanted to escape the racism that was happening in the east.
What were you trying to get out of exploiting the first nations? Question: Why is it that you don’t care about the Indians? Answer: We have a reason for why we are against the Aboriginals, it’s that they have owned this treasured land for far too long, when our past generations found this rich land they did not waste it they treasured it but eventually the population grew which caused us to spread past our region which meant going into the Aboriginal territories. Question: since the population grew largely for you does that not mean that our population grew as well? Why is it that you took there children and put them in residential, separating them from there family and other loved one’s?
The idea of westward expansion was a good one because it would enable people to live in more room and to grow the population, however many northerners merely saw the idea of westward expansion to spread slavery. Polk’s ideas angered and worried the north and caused relations to break down further due to a lack of trust. At The very beginning of the Mexican war the north issued the Wilmot Doctrine that proposed that any territory gained from Mexico should exclude slavery. This was very unpopular in the south as they
Their altruistic behavior was seen by the settlers as foolish and saw the natives as unworthy to inhabit it. In the book, The Wealth of Nations, written by Scottish philosopher Adam Smith in 1776, he introduces the concept of a free market economy and its benefits. This promotes the idea of competition, which Smith says fosters innovation and the advancement in society. Essentially, the settlers felt that without economy as a driving force in the lives of the Native American’s, they would be continuously living in an endless age of basic technology. Another reason for the oppression of the Native Americans is due to religious views.
Apess begins his story talking about the conditions of the reservation that Indians are living in and having to deal with, and blames the white men for these conditions. This is due to them “supposedly” being the masters or overseers’ of the reservations. He talks about how the white men could care less if the Indians lived or died. That the white men would take a lot of the Indians vegetation and taking their timber which is of most value to the Indians or any other items for free and then selling it to get a profit for themselves off of it. He feels that with no education the Indians are feel they cannot take care of themselves or their land.
Therefore, the Europeans decided to make the Native Americans slaves in order to create a cheap labor force. This was a logical decision for the Europeans because the Indians were native to this land, and they were more advanced in their agricultural techniques. Due to their language barrier, however, the Native Americans did not understand the European’s purpose at first. The inability of the Native Americans to understand what was happening to them only led to greater resentment and, ultimately, a rebellion. One example of Native American revolt is the Jamestown Massacre in 1622.
The Ordinance of 1785 was a process of dividing up land and allowing spectators to buy it in order to gain a profit. “Land would be sold by public auction at a minimum price of one dollar an acre, with highly desirable land bid up for more” (The American Promise, 240). Therefore, individuals that are wealthier typically were able to purchase the more desirable land. However, Indian tribes were angered by the new settlement and territories, and warned settlers not to go on their side of the Ohio River. A meeting with the Indian tribes agreed that no territory could be settled on without the consent of all the tribes.
Conflict theorists would argue that this was a selfish act due to a power struggle. The Europeans were the dominant group who were power hungry and wanted more land; they did not consider the needs of the aboriginals and how these resources were needed for survival. In order to achieve their goal, the Europeans acted in a way that relates to the second principle of conflict theory. They created residential schools with the objective of applying their social values and culture to the aboriginal children by removing their existing culture that had a negative effect on them. The government attempted to have a dominant race and remove any diversity.
Racism "Racism breeds racism in reverse." These words so candidly written by Mary Crow Dog, a Lakota Sioux, describe the reverse effect indian boarding schools had upon their pupils. These old Indian boarding schools were intended to push Native Americans into accepting a new way of life as a white man. In lieu of attempting to live peacefully along side the Natives, the white settlers felt they had to force the Indian population to become "civilized". The word civilized, as defined by Websters, means to have an advanced or humane culture, society, etc.. White men did not see the Indian culture as advanced or humane and therefore began forcing white man's way of life upon the Native American Tribes.
This is not right, or rational that people would risk so much in order to come to the United States, to work a job that most American citizens will not work. Yet we are hateful and mean, protesting, these people rights to make a living and support their families, if the work wasn’t here they would not come. Do you think the Native Americans like what happened to them, when the first generation immigrated to American, many Native Americans are still suffering the effect of the colonization of America. Published in the Huffington post a video “Native American Man Tells Anti-Illegal Immigration Protesters Who 'The Real Illegal Immigrants Are’ it goes on to say that a Native American man tells protesters “We didn’t invite none of you here. We’re the only Native Americans here.”(Ramos Z 2013) Are the Americans that don’t support open borders scared, because they don’t want what happened to the Native Americans,