Causes And Reasons For The War Of Independence Of 1857

People know about the conflict between the Indian's cultures and the settler's cultures during the westward expansion. Many people know the fierce battles and melees between the Indians and the settlers that were born from this cultural conflict. In spite of this, many people may not know about the systematic and deliberate means employed by the U.S. government to permanently rid their new land of the Indians who had lived their own lives peacefully for many years. There are many strong and chilling reasons and causes as to why the settlers started all of this perplexity in the first place. There was also a very strong and threatening impact on the Native Americans

This was different from the Spanish colonies occurred because the Spanish were not friends with the the Indians and did not treat them like people, but rather as slaves.

The relationship between the Natives and the British got off to a bad start when the British came in and

The War of 1812 was fought between the United States and Great Britain from June 1812 to the spring of 1815 (Findling, 15). When the war began, it was being fought by the Americans to address their grievances toward the British, though toward the end, the issues eventually were unjustified and reasons manipulated. There is no single cause for the War of 1812 but instead, several related causes, such the influence of the War Hawks, the impressments as well as the Embargo and Non-Intercourse acts, and the British's possible interference with the Indian Nations, and land ownership disputes between the Natives and Americans, ultimately leading to the Battle of Tippecanoe.

This made the Indians rebel against the whites even more. The Indians was asked to move to an off reservation this resulted into violence. The years to come was called the Indian wars.

While they had no official ally, they accepted bribes from both sides and profited. Additionally, in this first section of the chapter, the author informs the reader that Patriots took utilized Indian raids as propaganda opportunities to urge colonial unity. Even if the raids were carried out without British assistance, clever authors spun the stories to blame the mother country for the deaths of innocent Americans. By 1777, the British recognized that allying with the Natives was in their best interests and encouraged all tribes to raid Patriot settlements. The southern Indian nations hesitated, due to the recent defeat of the Cherokee in Georgia, but most of the northern nations agreed. Most Native American leaders thought the British would win the war and maintain trade relations with them. Additionally, the Indians wanted to regain the land they had lost to the colonists. Other Indians, however, saw the British as “the lesser of two evils”. Taylor writes that some saw the manipulative tendencies of the British and the fact that their strategies endangered Natives more than their own

The general cause of the Indian Independence Movement was India’s desire for independence from British, French and Portuguese Rule. The aim of the movement was “Swaraj, a self-governing India” (Sharma, 2005, p. 22). One, more specific, cause of the Indian Independence Movement took place in 1905 when the province of Bengal was divided into two provinces,

The Proclamation of 1763 also established that the land reserved for the Indians was still owned by the British but the Indians would govern it. Britain did not actually mean to give this land to the Indians ever completely, but knew it would take

The French and Indian War altered greatly altered the political, economic, and ideological relations between Britain and its American colonies. In terms of politics, England suddenly began to get too involved in the well-being of the colonies and soon started to tax them heavily and impose new, unjust laws.

The Indians had an identity all their own, and were in many ways reluctant to open up to the English settlers, fearing the effects of their highly controversial way of life. Regardless, despite the devastating bouts with foreign disease that accompanied the settlers, and issues regarding the land the colonists claimed in the name of the king, the Indians were still relatively accepting and hospitable to the setting Puritans. (Drake 3) They traded openly, worked together in establishing villages, and notoriously, the Indians aided the Puritans in teaching them the ways of the land, and in guiding them through the difficult New England winters. Over several years, the two cultures began to mesh, and the bits and pieces

The Indians were not included into the peace made with Great Britain, as stated in Document 3, but many Native American tribes such as the Shawnee, Creek, and Cherokee sided with the British. They had hoped for a British victory that would continue to restrain the land-hungry colonial settlers from moving west beyond the Appalachian Mountains.The Indians were left to roam the wilderness. Native Americans, too, participated in and were affected by the Revolution. Unfortunately, the Americans’ victory and Native Americans’ support for the British created a pretense for justifying the rapid, and often brutal expansion into the western territories. Native American tribes would continue to be displaced and pushed further west throughout the nineteenth century. Ultimately, American independence marked the beginning of the end of what had remained of Native American independence. Doc 5 Indians will be forced to move again and it is Indian territory at this time. The laws are for white people moving into the territory because Indians were not seen as

The main cause of the French and Indian War was from frontier tensions. Both French and British colonists wanted to expand its country and its influence on other territories. The French colonists controlled most of upstate New York and other parts of Pennsylvania, while Great Britain controlled the 13 colonies. The border between the French and British was not well described and they both thought they owned the Ohio country. Both European countries wanted this territory because of the strategic advantages, for trading, and for a new settlement. They both tried to claim the land by arguing that it belonged to their Native American tribes and eventually the French constructed forts all around this territory to try to strengthen and assert their ownership of the land. The British forces attempted to remove the French but they were outnumbered and eventually conquered. The British tried to strike back once again but, their plans became public which notified the French and eventually started the entire war. The War deeply impacted the British Empire. It greatly expanded the British territory, but in return it expanded Britain’s debt. The British leaders believed that the military and financial help they got from the colonists was not enough and made many of the leaders reorganize the colonies and the way they handle things. The colonists were not satisfied with their share of the British’s earnings and this even eventually led to the American Revolution. The Iroquois Indians that

Many Indians had clamored for peace from the fighting and welcomed the proclamation as a declaration of peace. Colonists in the area were irate for multiple reasons. One reason was the catastrophic loss of life from the Indian attacks that had left thousands dead and multiple settlements destroyed. Man colonists were upset with Britain’s decision to grant these lucrative lands to the enemies that had plagued their lives over the past year, especially after the French had been successfully removed from the region by Britain. Britain had no way or possible intention of enforcing the proclamation. Attempts were made that required any settlers wishing to encroach or settle on Indian lands to first require authorization. Eventually, settlers began to migrate westward, with or without authorization. Britain in turn approached the Indian leaders and gave them an ultimatum: either sign over the lands or defy the crown and be destroyed. The Indians, who had received their fair share of casualties from the recent attacks, had no alternative but to sign over their lands to the British since rallying the French against the British was no longer an

Many Indians chose to convert out of fear with assurance by the English that they would be provided with physical security. Physical security was taken from the Christian Native Americans after King Phillip’s War. All of the Native Americans living in the English controlled prayer towns were sold into slavery. Throughout the end of the film I noticed that the English used the Native Americans to their convenience. They continued to honor the treaty until they had found enough power to wipe out the Indians. As the Wampanoag tribe still held their ground, the English were willing to have peace with the Indians but only if they converted to Christianity. After all non-Christian Native Americans were wiped out; the English no longer saw a purpose to keeping the Christian Native Americans around. At their convenience, they sold the remaining Native Americans into slavery.

Throughout the years many historians have compilated and examined why Indian people were so desperate to gain back their independence from the British Empire during their rule over India, from 1612 to 1947. The reasoning can most definitely be found as the British discriminated against Indian people as they believe that they were inferior; it is no surprise that Indian people fought so hard for their independence. Throughout the British Raj, they placed and put forward unbelievably racist acts and laws which discriminated against Indian people. Which of course led to Indians to rebel against the British rule and which the British reacted with causing massacres. Explaining the nationalistic many India’s felt during the British Raj.