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.
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.
Therefore the reconstruction of early America demands a great amount of imagination for the interpretation of the era’s anthropology, archeology, and oral tradition-later recorded by Europeans. Richter uses his first chapter ‘Imagining a Distant World’ as a double entendre. He is describing the motivation that drove tens of thousands to leave Europe in search of a storied new land, while simultaneously admitting that he too is using his imagination to reconstruct an image of early America. Richter sites Carl Becker’s “Every Man His Own Historian”, which was published in American History Review, to support his admitted use of imagination in the reconstruction of events through the eyes of those who were facing
The telegraph invented in the 1830’s allowed instantaneous to become possible with the use of Morris Code. This increased commerce communication and led to things such as uniform pricing of goods throughout the country. With all of these advancements in transportation and communication taking place, the westward movements of people beyond the Appalachian Mountains flourished. 4.5 Million people crossed the mountains, and this quickly led to the formation of six new states in: Illinois, Alabama, Missouri, and Minnesota. The people traveled in groups and with the new advancements in communication and technology they could quickly establish communities and generate commerce for growth.
Colonization Colonization began around the time period of Christopher Columbus discovery for land. His goal at the time was to seek for land and gold. In his process he met the Native Americans who were open and welcoming to him. However he took advantage of their niceness and wanted to take there land away from them. After being ruled off there land other Native Americans became smart about who approached their land.
Response Paper #1 “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Passage Selection The first passage I chose that helped me better understand the reading was the line: “If I tried to get away with it, then other people would try to get away with it – and pretty soon we’d be right back to the dark ages again, with everybody competing against everybody else.” It gives you the idea that what we now see in our modern society would have been almost completely incomprehensible to far past centuries. It also makes you wonder if the common desire for equality that we now strive for to make things equal for everyone can be taken too far. The second passage that I felt was important to me was: “Gee- I could tell that one was a doozy,” ”You can say that again.” ”Gee- I could tell that one was a doozy.” This selection was important to me because it gave me a better understanding of the situation. The previous events in the literature were very drastic and sad.
Although the Incas were more advanced and modern in their ways, the Inca and Aztec Empires were similar in some of the aspects that allowed them to be so successful and powerful. First, both civilizations had intensive agriculture mandated by the state. The crops were then redistributed to all the social classes equally. Both economies depended greatly on agriculture and farming, even producing some of the same crops such as corn and squash. Although agriculture based societies have been around for a long time in history and were pretty much the norm in this time period, their agriculture systems still created a surplus of crops, which allowed for increased populations.
These technologies included new farming implements and methods, Railroads, steam engines, and the telegraph, to name a few. This was the beginning of what would come to be known as the Industrial Revolution. There are several reasons why the Industrial Revolution Began in England. Britain had many resources, including timber and steel and iron ore. It also had a stable government, which allowed for the people to begin industrializing in the first place, harbors for trade, a very large population resulting in a very large workforce, and many water ways throughout the country to transport materials and products as well as to use for water power at mills.
Generally speaking, researchers have gathered enough information for writers like Kreyche, to report on this expedition as well as many more that have taken place through the years. One point Kreyche made was that he thought Lewis and Clark were heroes for discovering new lands. Yes, what they did was very great for our country but I would not consider them heroes. Lewis and Clark were really trying to explore the lands and find unsettled territory. When they were traveling along the Missouri River, it stated that they would stop and mingle with Indian tribes.
B. Rural Environments 1. Almost all the land in Europe had been transformed by human activity before the Industrial Revolution, but deforestation was an ongoing problem. Americans transformed their environment even faster than Europeans did, clearing land, using it until the soil was depleted, and then moving