Chapter 13 1.) The westward movement entangled the United States in the affairs of foreign powers when we came into contact of previously existing Natives and Spanish that lived on the land that we were expanding towards. That involved us in military affairs with other countries. On page 424, it explains that Spain held title to most of the trans-Mississippi west property and that for the last hundred years or so were expanding and settling, and tried only to fail to keep people from migrating to that area. It goes on to explain that Americans before the great migration of the 1840s migrated for the attraction of fur businesses.
Journals Chapter 1 At the end of the fifteenth century, Christopher Columbus lead an expedition to the New World. This “New” World had been populated for at least 12,000 years when the Archaic people crossed over from Siberia to Alaska. The Aztec, Inca, and hundreds of other cultures lived there when Christopher Columbus “found” the continents. They spoke a combined 375 languages. The first Archaic Native Americans were hunter-gatherers.
Fundamental factors like the growing powers all the governments, a new thrust and desire for foreign goods- especially Asian goods, and a desire to spread the Christian religion drew the Europeans to the exploration, conquest and settlement of the New World. The key players in exploration of the New World all became more powerful. The Portuguese set up trading posts along the coast of Africa which allowed money to flow through the country, giving them more power. The marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile unified the kingdom of Spain, which increased its power. This increase in power made many countries and governments hungry for more power and would do anything to find it.
Economic motives encouraged the colonization in Virginia. Organizers of The Virginia Company of London wanted to expand trade and to obtain a wider market for English goods. They hoped for great financial profit, whereas freedom from religious persecution drove the Pilgrims to leave England and settle in Holland. However, when they realized that their children were being too influenced by the Dutch lifestyle and were starting to lose their Enlgish culture, they decided to leave for the New World, encouraged by news from the Virginia settlement. Further more, the relations with the Native American
The substantial increase in population due to immigration that occurs during this time goes on to affect the nation in positive and negative ways. Some of the adverse affects of such a rapid growth in population were overcrowding in cities, lack of jobs, and occasional food shortages. But the hard working spirit and work ethic that the immigrants brought, along with a determined will to succeed, were an overarching positive were crucial to the country becoming what it is today. In the late 1800s, people in many parts of the world decided to leave their homes and emigrate to the United States. Immigrants entered into the United States through several
HIS 115 week 1 assignment Long before Europeans first set foot on the American Continent, North and South America were inhabited by Native Americans. But where did these people come from? If the theory of where man originated tells us that man came out of Africa then did these people come from Africa, or somewhere else? Historians tell us that North and South Native Americans were nomadic hunters that crossed from Siberia over the Bering Strait approximately 10,000 years before Columbus landed on Hispaniola. These first people migrated to the North American continent around 35,000 B.C.E.
The expedition also informed the Indians about the new sovereignty of the US over the territory, which helped to force foreign fur trade competitors out of North America. They did figure out how to get from the headwater of the Missouri to the headwater of the Columbia (However, it turned out to be impractical). In the time that human’s civilization was still limited, the Corps Discovery of Expedition led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark deserves a great deal of credit for accomplishing its goals successfully. The crew contributed a lot to opening the whole western region to trade, linking the Eastern and Western parts of the continent, starting an
Varying Views of the American Westward Expansion From 1790 to 1835 in the Southern United States Chase Burchett 1090-008 Riverview High School Sarasota, FL, USA Subject Area: History Word Count: 3171 Abstract: In the end of the 18th century in North America, the people of the United States were ready to conquer some of that wild and mysterious land that lay west of the States. Technology had made traveling a lot easier, via wagons and food supplies. The population had grown to a point where the land that once seemed to stretch to the ends of the earth were no longer so infinite. In fact, in some places in the north east, the land was quite crowded. All of these factors led to pioneers, ready to explore the Wild West.
The scientists who hold this theory believe the earliest Americans arrived 12,000 years ago. Other scientists believe humans came to the Americas much earlier. They have found artifacts in South America that tests show to be 30,000years old. These scientists believe that people came to the Americas by many routes, including by boat over thousands of years . A culture is a way of life that people share including arts beliefs and customs.
All the cultures were technologically stuck in the Stone Age,and ,combined with their lack of immunity to European diseases meant that these civilizations were overrun and conquered by Europeans. Columbus proved to the Europeans that the world was likely round and not flat. He didn't really prove that it was round, but his voyages increased the perceived likelihood that it was, and inspired other explorers who really did demonstrate that you could head west and end up east. That increased global trade significantly. It also increased global awareness of the other cultures that share this planet.