The excerpt from Clarence Ver Steeg’s The Formative Years tells why people were exported to America. The English were overcrowded, and wanted more people to settle in there new colony, America. The people they exported were low life people like slaves, criminals, and unwanted people. John Winthrop believed that the Puritans moved to England to follow there King, but not follow his religious beliefs. James Adams believed that the primary motive for people to move to America was to not follow the King’s laws.
In the 1500s, the Spanish arrived in the New World with the intent to convert natives to Catholicism, trade, and discover riches. Juan de Onate, one of these explorers, killed thousands of natives in order to gain fame and wealth. The Spanish and Indians also developed the Columbian Exchange; a trade of goods, livestock, and crops, which was beneficial to both sides as it brought new items to both groups. Most of the products that the Spanish gave to the natives brought diseases that the Indians had no immunity to. Cortez even intentionally gave out
16 September 2012 Relationships between American Indians and European Colonists During the race for land in the 1600s, Europeans quickly moved onto American property, but usually, American Indians occupied that land. At first Europeans would sometimes become allies with the Indians as an aid to survive, but when the Europeans gained enough support and became more land-hungry, they would kick the Indians out of the property. As Europeans moved into the American colonies, actions by both the American Indians and European colonists, overall, negatively affected their relationship. This is clear in examining the relationships between the Native Americans and Europeans in New England and the Chesapeake area. In 1620, the first permanent English settlement came to New England in Massachusetts near Plymouth Rock.
Slave codes were soon approved – in Massachusetts in 1641 and Virginia in 1661 –and any minor liberties that might have existed for African American were taken away (Feature Indentured Servants In The U.S , n.p.). The early colonizers soon understood that they had lots of land to settle, but no one to actually do the work. This necessity for cheap labor created indentured servitude. Indentured servants were important to the colonial growth. But as demands for labor grew, so did the cost of paying indentured servants.
When Great Britain and France went to war, both nations began seizing American merchant ships. Congress then passed trade laws designed to stop the British and French interfering with American trade. According to Regan, the Secretary of Agriculture asked for the right to seize farms through condemnation and resell them to other individuals, while seeing an increase in the Department of Agriculture employees. However, sixty six shiploads of grain disappeared to Austria without a trace. Ultimately, the 1st Amendment, Freedom of Speech, Religion, and the Press, was discussed early in Regan’s speech, just as it was the first amendment to the Constitution
Another cause of the civil war was the actions of John Brown, who attacked on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia. His plan was to seize the weapons and help the slaves revolt, but it didn’t work (Doc 6). When violence broke out in Kansas’s territory over slavery, Charles Sumner gave a speech on the “crime against Kansas”. Preston brooks, took it upon himself to defend his colleagues and beat Sumner with a cane (Doc.8). If America was not faced with these problems that I have mentioned in the paragraphs above we might not of had a Civil War.
Another reason for migration was the idea of primogeniture, which allowed the eldest son to inherit the wealth; leaving others desperate and in hopes of finding riches overseas. Also, many fled to America to escape peonage or prison. These social concerns in England ended up populating the colonies because people believed they would find a better life in America. The second major way that England shaped the colonies were the English politics. At some points, colonists seemingly were allowed plenty of freedom, while other times they were under strict English rule.
Colonial Ways of Life: The young males who colonized in the 1600’s and 1700’s was a wave of human movement happening in Europe and Africa because of religious intolerance, population increase, the growth of plantation agriculture, industrialization, indentured labor, penitentiary, and slavery. The land was shaped by the slash and burn practices of the native Americans and the use of land as private property and the deliberate introduction of cattle, oxen, sheep, goats, horses, and pigs and unintentional introduction of weeds by the Europeans. These animals and weeds caused conflicts between the native Indians and the Europeans. During this period the population of the colonialists exploded, for example, in 1704 English speaking colonists numbered 75,000. The women folk who made up the colonial population, while they could not vote, preach, hold office, attend school, bring lawsuits, make contracts, or own property; these barriers did not prevent many from engaging in commerce, being in professions, and land owners.
The proslavery forces were burning towns and murdered a free-state settler named Thomas Barber.1 This led to a disagreement over the land, until James Henry Lane and Charles Robinson drew up a peace treaty and had the free-state men in full possession of the Territory. Brown was proud and excited to know that the abolitionists won and the Missourians backed off. Later Brown receives news that Missouri was not going to give up Kansas and this led to the all-out declaration of war from proslavery forces. The later actions led up to the Pottawatomie Massacre and the actual battle because of the refusal to accept free-states decisions. Harper’s Ferry, was the first target in Brown’s war for slave liberation.
Before the Emancipation of Serfs by Alexander II, peasants were tied to the land they tended so they couldn’t migrate and depopulate Russia. After they had been emancipated the peasants had to buy their land and spend almost the rest of their lives paying back redemption payments. The peasants first struck back at the Government by attacking their Landlords property. Some groups of peasants went as far as to chase down and kill their landlords and burn the property. These attacks were triggered by the spreading of terrorist acts from the towns and cities to the countryside.