There are explorers, traders, and mountain men that have contributed toward westward movement in the United States, positively and negatively. The first ones who did were Louis and Clark, who led their expedition toward the Louisiana Territory, uncharted at the time. They came back with detailed notes and maps, which contributed positively since the west no longer was a mystery as to what was out there, making people more confident to move with information to guide them. Next were the Astorians who also made a positive impact toward westward movement. John Astor wanted his group of men to be able to pass the Columbia River in Oregon to set up a fur-trading company.
I did have close friends that led me to be someone in the Mexican political world. I did not want to follow my dad’s footsteps it was never in my plans. My name reached out to others when I accepted the fact that I was going to give the expedition a try and come back with gold, which opened a lot of ears and eyes. The most important role for me in my life was being able to lead a group of men to try and find the gold that we went out to look for. Of course, we had rough times but I can say that it was well worth it.
Slave raids and even wars increased. A young man named Equiano was one of these very slaves. He thought “that he had got into a world of bad spirits, and that the whites were going to kill him.”(Equiano, 10) After the potential slaves were kidnapped, merchants forced them to walk in slave caravans to the European coastal forts. Which was sometimes as far as 1,000 miles. Locked up and poorly fed, only half the Africans survived these death marches.
Berkeley was captured and Jamestown was burned in an effort to force the government to solve the Indian threat and other economic problems. The leader of the rebellion issued “Manifesto and Declaration of the People.” 24. The southern colonies regulated the status of slaves as real estate without the right to congregate or travel freely. In these _______________________, children born to a black woman were also slaves. 25.
(p.85) What the rest of the book shaped me to understand is that Cortez was not the man sent to bring a region to new heights, but instead, the man sent to find somewhere to rule. He was very smart and was able to use people and tell and do what they wanted, to get what he wanted. The Indians were taken over, forced to work their land till some of them died from it, or brought down with diseases their body couldn’t handle. Even though I walk away from this book with a better knowledge of the journey taken to move Mexico to be the Mexico we know it as today, I do not feel that Cortez or the others that came after him did them
Squanto, also called Tisquantum, was an Native American interpreter and guide for Pilgrims in the New World. Thomas Hunt kidnapped Squanto and brought him to Spain to be sold into slavery. Squanto escaped to England and returned home in 1619, he found that all of his people had been wiped out by disease. Fluent in English, he became a member of the Plymouth colony and served as a guide. Squanto was born into the Pawtuxet people who occupied lands in present-day Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Raleigh believed he could colonize in the land by trying again in a warmer climate in which the English men could handle. Raleigh tried several times to colonize in the area of Virginia but failing miserably each attempt. With each failed attempt, the English Empire lost more respect the shadow of Spanish grew greater over them. The colony in which Raleigh was trying to colonize, known as “Roanoke” mysteriously disappeared on the final try and to this day, no one knows what happened. There have been many explanations with why Roanoke disappeared such as disease, hurricanes, or the Native Americans killed them.
If it is not accepted the man will not pick it up and the tribe’s man will have to lay down more gold or leave instead. These merchants are depicted as fair and appropriate in trading. Yet they are wary on the travels back due to potential thievery from other tribes. Each document is biased from he who wrote it. The monarch describes his military strength and conquers.
European colonization has led to the discoveries to North and South America led to a frenzy of expeditions from most western and southern European nations, to claim land in the Americas. These expeditions to these new lands, led to colonization of these virgin lands. The only thing standing in the way of the Europeans new found land was the native people who populated it. While some of the natives were generous to the Europeans some of them found them threatening and were hostile towards them. Over time these natives and Europeans developed good and bad relationships.
So, it is no surprise that the same process happened over and over. The settlers took advantage of the Native Americans and their ways because the Europeans thought the natives were handing it all over to them. It is hard to believe that the natives trusted the whites in the first place, but they basically helped the settlers conquer the land they inhabited. When children are taught about the battles fought against the Native Americans, they are made to seem barbaric, but they are far from that. They are kind and gentle people that have respect for