How Did Lord Dunmore's War With The Native Americans?

Another cause for poor relations between Native Americans and European Settlers was the constant push for acquiring new land by the Colonists. The Native Americans did not just want to give up their land and this resulted in war between the Indians and the Colonists. During this time Native Americans were sold into slavery belittled and removed from their land, due to the fact that the Colonists had more advanced technology and weapons. One of the major wars was the French and Indian War which resulted in the removal of Native Americans from their land and many casualties on both sides. Over time many battles were fought over land, even after America was an established country with presidents, laws, and court systems. Native Americans were continually pushed out of their land for hundreds of years while they were forced to move west. The constant push of Native Americans out of their land would cause an event known as the Trail of Tears where thousands of Indians were removed from their land by the Indian Removal Act. “In 1830 the Congress of the United States passed the "Indian Removal Act." Although many Americans were against the act, most notably Tennessee Congressman Davy Crockett, it passed anyway. President Jackson quickly signed the bill into law. The Cherokees attempted to fight removal legally by challenging the removal laws in the Supreme Court and by establishing an

The Treaty of Paris furthered tensions with the English Americans since the land to the West was given to the Native Americans. English Americans were restricted from the area. English Americans were angered and many refused to listen. “George Washington led the expansion of Virginia into the Ohio Valley, and he aimed to do it with or without the blessing of British government”. However, people like Sir William Johnson tried to protect the rights of the natives by creating organizations and tried to keep Native English relations on good terms.

The Northwest Territory would in fact become the battleground for conflicts between the Indian Nations and the United States. The British Empire had ceded the area to the United States in the Treaty of Paris in 1783 but both sides however, ignored the fact that the land was already inhabited by various Indian nations. The British saw the Indian nations as valuable allies and a protector of their Canadian colonies and provided arms to the Native American tribes. This would allow for attacks on American settlers in the Northwest further aggravated tensions between Britain and the United States. Raids grew more common in 1810 and 1811 and Westerners in Congress found the them intolerable and wanted them permanently

This created tension with the Political relationship with Great Britain. The Indians fought alongside the French in the French and Indian war with the hope that white settlers would keep out of their land. However when the Treaty of Paris was signed, the French gave up most of their land, with the exception of New Orleans, to the British (Document A). Both the Indians and the White knew of the value of the Indian lands, and the Natives were not so ready to just let the settlers to come into their lands and destroy it (Document B). To avoid any further conflict the British government issued the Proclamation of 1763.

Originally, when the English arrived in Virginia they needed to have some sort of relationship with the Native Americans in order to survive. Even though when they came they took the Native Americans’ lands without asking or buying, after this they formed a short alliance in order to survive the starving time. The main ‘peacemaker’, John Smith, strengthened the connection between the two groups, after he was kidnapped and then returned by the Powhatans. During this time, the Native Americans traded fur with the Virginians and also showed them how to plant tobacco, which became their cash crop. After this, Lord De La Warr came in and violently attacked the peaceful Native Americans, which caused tensions to grow between the two groups and their relationship to decline. On the other hand, as the colonists came into Maryland, most of the Native Americans greeted them kindly but since King Charles told Lord Baltimore (George Calvert) to destroy the original inhabitants for their land, many tribes were wiped out. There were still a few tribes that remained and they helped Maryland grow to not only be a renowned colony for religion but to also be famous for their economy. These remaining tribes traded fur with the colonists and taught them how to plant corn, beans, squash, and tobacco. In return the colonists gave the tribes weapons and basic clothing and tools. Even though these two groups traded, the Native Americans were treated as the lowest class and were not involved in the colony’s government. Eventually, the Native Americans tribes in Maryland grew weak from disease and then the Maryland colonists took over all of their land or forced the people to

In Letter from Governor Edmund Ross of New Mexico to President Grover Cleveland, Governor Edmund Ross wrote to President Grover Cleveland regarding the white resident’s reactions towards Geronimo’s escape from military custody and Ross’ attempt to further convince the government to rid and even potentially kill off some of the American Indian tribes surrounding their settlements. Despite their small number, which was had a population of “less than five hundred”[ Kent McGaughy, American Perspectives: Readings in American History, Volume 2 (New York City: Pearson Education, Inc., 2015), Page 80] people, the white settlers felt uneasy about the fact that they lived in such close proximities to the tribes and that if some of the tribes (particularly, the Chiricahua and the Warm Springs bands of the Apaches group) were removed, they would feel safer and that the removal of the tribes would have a positive and tranquil impact on their territories and industries as they believed the American Indians were “at constant war with the white race”[ McGaughy, Page 80] and that those wars and raids hindered the settler’s way of life.

The Compromise of 1763: How the Compromise of 1763 resolve conflict between Native Americans and settlers

The expedition of Lewis and Clark was a landmarking event in American history, but its significance goes beyond just the land they discovered.The Lewis and Clark Expedition was put forward so the two would be able to see and map out western America in search of new trade routes and passages. Lewis and Clark would have doubtfully survived had it not been with the aid of the Indians they met on their travels. Upon their controversial meetings with several Indian groups, Lewis and Clark were not respectful to the Americans they met on their journey. The controversial messages behind the peace metals, the reference to the Indians as “children”, and the physical

In the early 1800’s, The United States and Spain had continuously argued with the Native people. The Louisiana Territory was purchased from France in the year 1803, Americans continued to push farther west for fertile land that could be used for farming. Due to overcrowding of eastern cities like New York City and Boston many settlers moved out west for a new start. It allowed for colonists to spread out and own untouched fertile land. When white settlers arrived they had realized that most of the land acquired from the territory was occupied by Native Americans for thousands of years. For decades Americans had thought that the land west of the Appalachian Mountains were unoccupied, but they were wrong. There were many tribes that had occupied this land. This included tribes like, The Choctaw, Cherokee, and The Chickasaw. In a sense, Americans had violent outbreaks with the Natives the minute the colonists’ had arrived in the United State. As the colonists’ tried to establish complete dominance and superiority over the Indians, ongoing heated debates over land ownership, and demanding requests to satisfy greed made forceful attacks between the groups unavoidable.

Although white European settlers and the native Indians had existed moderately peaceful for around 40 years pressures rose in the mid-seventh century. Conflict arose due to decline in Indian territories, population, and their cultural integrity. These differences ultimately lead to conflicts in which collectively became known as King Philip’s War. What types of complaints did the Indians have against the settlers? How were the Indians expected to survive if the settlers kept taking their land? The primary sources in this collection of source documents touch upon on what each group (Indian or white settlers) did to survive: an excerpt from a narrative written by John Easton, a second hand account written by Thomas Church, a report written to the English leaders by Edward Randolph, a petition written by an Indian named William Nahton, and an excerpt of an account from a book written by Mary Rowlandson. These documents illustrate the main causes that sparked the war between the Native Indians and the white English settlers, narratives written by both sides to find peaceful solutions, and actual accounts of people who survived the conflict. The second hand account written about Benjamin Church’s meeting with the Indian group known as the Sakonnet Indians displays that the Indians knew their only chance of survival was to fight while the report written to English leaders by Randolph suggest that the settlers who viewed the Indians as uncivilized had ultimately forced the Indians

During the time of 1763-1775, one of the occurrences that happened to affect the colonists’ perception of the British was the French and Indian War. The war itself was not the main reason the colonists’ had trouble with the British, but the time after the war was the actual cause of eventual trouble. During the war, the British fought with France around the Ohio valley for the control of land. The Ohio valley was very important to both of the empires, because of the land value and the strategic location it held in the years to come. Both had their struggles especially with the Native Americans that called this area their home. Most of the Native Americans sided with either the British or the French because they thought that if they had sided with

The biggest tragedy of the colonization of the Americans was the genocide of the Native Americans. Europeans ambition towards gold/silver, turn into a tragic turn of events that ended up with the assassination of millions of Natives as a result, killing innocent children, infants and raping women along the way. The natives that were not killed were taken as slaves and sold in Peru and Hispaniola where they got the best prices for them.

Long ago on the great plains, the buffalo roamed and the Native Americans lived amongst each other. They were able to move freely across the lands until the white men came and concentrated them into certain areas. Today there are more than five-hundred different tribes with different beliefs and history. Native Americans still face problems about the horrific history they went through and today 's discrimination. The removal of American Indian tribes is one of the most tragic events in American history. There are many treaties that have been signed by American representatives and people of Indian tribes that guaranteed peace and the values of the Indian territories. The treaties were to assure that fur trade would continue without interruption. The American people wanting Indian land has led to violent conflict between the two. Succeeding treaties usually forced the tribes to give up their land to the United States government. There were laws made for Native American Displacement that didn’t benefit the Native Americans, these laws still have long lasting effects on them today, and there was a huge number of Native Americans killed for many reasons.

To show the Indians their gratitude the British decided to show them their gratitude in the form of a royal proclamation. By making the Appalachians off limits too white settlers the natives received hunting ground. For the Indians this deal was great, after years of being persecuted and subjugated they finally get something in return. Now for the land hungry settlers this was devastating, they saw it as a travesty seeing as how this was passed right after the French war. This is because once the French were gone lands to the south west of the colonies were open for business, but then parliament stepped in.

Long ago on the great plains, the buffalo roamed and the Native Americans lived amongst each other. They were able to move freely across the lands until the white men came and concentrated them into certain areas. Today there are more than five-hundred different tribes with different beliefs and history. Native Americans still face problems about the horrific history they went through and today 's discrimination. The removal of American Indian tribes is one of the most tragic events in American history. There are many treaties that have been signed by American representatives and people of Indian tribes that guaranteed peace and the values of the Indian territories. The treaties were to assure that fur trade would continue without interruption. The American people wanting Indian land has led to violent conflict between the two. Succeeding treaties usually forced the tribes to give up their land to the United States government. There were laws made for Native American Displacement that didn’t benefit the Native Americans, these laws still have long lasting effects on them today, and there was a huge number of Native Americans killed for many reasons.