He rallied tribes to his cause and became very powerful, calling his forces “Pontiac’s Confederacy”. In 1763 they are stronger than ever, and the English fall. After, the English spread the small pox disease, and many Indians died. Soon after the French surrendered all together from the war effort, and left the Indians to fend for their own cause. English continued to trade with the Indians, and Pontiacs cause was lost.
Matthew Howard June 24, 2013 History 309 Jeffery Glasco Facing East from Indian Country: A Comprehensive Review The misrepresentation of the relationship between Native American’s and European settlers has been widespread throughout United States history. In the book Facing East from Indian Country, author Daniel K. Richter provides an informative and compelling clarification of common misconceptions regarding initial exchanges between the two civilizations. Richter sets out to dispel notions regarding European dominance over Native Americans from first contact. Using a combination of primary sources and creativity Richter paints a contradictory picture to that of traditional United States history. He does so by reliving Native American-European relations from the Native American perspective.
a. Designated boundaries for reservations b. Use of military force c. Treaties and compensation d. Gold rushes e. Policy of assimilation Throughout the 19th century, the treatment of Native Americans by the United States government was far less than respectful. The US government allowed its desire for settlement in the West to justify the relocation of thousands of Native Americans. Once on reservations Native Americans were expected to assimilate into the American culture.
“The Black Death, a catastrophic epidemic of the bubonic plague that began in Constantinople in 1347, had decimated Europe, killing (according to some estimates) more than a third of the people of the continent and debilitating its already limited economy.”1 (Brinkley, 2011) Almost 150 years later, the population had recovered and with it an awakening of commerce began. With the establishment of chartered companies and a new concept of economic life, known as mercantilism, there was big interest in goods from distant lands. These new advances allowed the newly founded companies to start up colonies allowing them to export goods found in the New World. This helped avoid having to get them from other countries. They grew an interest in quicker trade routes to the east.
The relationship between the English colonists and Native Americans is usually portrayed as black or white. The story of the first Thanksgiving shows the benevolent relationship between the New England settlers and the Wampanoag tribe. The mass genocide of the Native Americans and the brutality of the English toward the natives (and vice versa) shows the onerous relationship between the two cultures. How did the Native Americans and English settlers go from one extreme to the next? Over a period of fifty years, the positive relationship between the cultures deteriorated to one of great toxicity.
• Divisions within and between local societies provided allies for European invaders. • European germs and diseases to which Native Americans had no immunities decimated society after society, sometimes in advance of the Europeans’ actual arrival. 2. What large-scale transformations did European empires generate? • European empire building caused the demographic collapse of Native American societies.
Chapter 14 Id’s Chapter Thesis: From 1450 to 1750, three regions: the Americas, Europe, and Africa impacted the world for the good as the exchanged goods, ideas, culture, but most importantly this mixing resulted in new people of the world with mixed races and new cultures, crops, economy, etc. 1) The Great Dying “The Great Dying” consisted of the Native American societies. The Great Dying was a phenomenon and was quoted “surely the greatest tragedy in the history of the human species.” In essence it was the demographic effect of diseases brought by Europeans on the Americas. It occurred between 1450 and 1750. It occurred on lands from Mesoamerica to the Caribbean islands.
For the first sixty years of the twentieth century, historians believed that McKinley had been a weak President pressured into the war with Spain by popular passions and a nationalistic press. Most interpretations held that McKinley's weakness extended to the domestic political arena. McKinley was a managed President, so the thinking went, a chief executive handled by his political cronies, especially Mark Hanna. McKinley, moreover, suffered in comparison to his successor, Theodore Roosevelt, whom historians thought possessed—often in abundance—many of the characteristics that McKinley lacked. In the 1960s, a new assessment of McKinley emerged, however.
CONTACT WITH THE EUROPEANS: 1.1 MAIN DATES AND EVENTS Europeans first contacted Northwest Coast people in 1741, but it wasn't until 1778 and James Cook's accidental discovery of the value of sea otter pelts (to the Chinese) that intense and prolonged contact between Europeans and the Native People began. By the 1850s, the fur trade had died out, as had many of the Native people, primarily through the introduction of infectious diseases, epidemics of which would wipe out entire villages. In the1850s Ameropean settlers began to arrive and conflict with the Natives escalated, with the federal governments increasing their economic and political control over the lives of the Native
Loss of culture among the Native Americans was a major impact of European settlement of the new world. Introduction of grain alcohol was one negative impact to the Native American people. The Europeans were used to taking grain alcohol as a drink for around a century of years. Liquor such as wine, whiskey and beer were consumed in many various ways and reasons. Hard liquor was used to help soldiers bear the pain of their wounds.