Lewis And Clark Dbq Analysis

The whites tried to colonize the Natives land, and they Natives didn’t know how to handle it. They also couldn’t handle all the diseases, and illnesses that the white people brought with them as said in the background “europeans brought with them measles and smallpox, against which natives americans were not immune”. This started to kill the Native Americans, but not all things that the white’s brought over to the new land, weren't so bad. The Native Americans started running out of food, this lead them to start relying on Europeans goods or food and other necessary items as stated in the background “The Cherokees were losing their self-sufficiency and becoming increasingly dependent on European goods”. In Document 5 it says “your mothers, your sisters ask and beg of you not to of our land, We say ours. You are our descendants; take pity on our request.” This quote emphasises how much the cherokee women didn't want the whites colonizing Their land anymore, because they wanted the land passed down to the next generation for them the thrive and live. This later took a turn when the Native americans and the white started to realize that they couldn't live with the whites anymore, The two different races were to different in culture as said in document 4 “Indians cannot flourish in the neighborhood of the white population”. This later became an issue with the whites and later became the Indian Removal

Throughout history, Native Americans were always treated with disrespect and in this region “More and more, government officials saw Indians as standing in the way of the agricultural and industrial development of the west ” (349). No matter how considerate and negotiable the Natives had been to the whites, the homesteaders greed took over causing them to think it was okay to treat them like they were a lower class. Many wars broke out but the whites were determined to steal their land and put them on reservations so no one could stand in the way of expanding causing them to succeed. During this time, the west was in fact affected since “These instant towns had no government, no law, and little order” (344). Without any book or rules to go off of the towns were high in robbery and other crimes because the system never changed to adjust for the greater population. Everyone did what they wanted without any concerns because it was accepted. An abundance of beliefs and situations remained the same during the great expansion of the west although many things did

The Europeans had became greedy and selfish. They had become reliant on the native Americans to do everything for them. They had made them do necessary tasks that they could have done themselves, but chose not too. They had made them carry them when they didn’t want to walk, feed them, fan them,carry their hammocks,etc. They had become conceited, thinking they were too “royal” to do anything for themselves. They had made the Native Americans slaves and servants to their every bidding no matter the circumstance. They had become puppets to the Europeans and they controlled the Natives and forced them to do whatever they wanted. They had made the Natives lose their dignity and sink so low by making them complete their every request. The Natives had been worn down and degraded to be known as nothing to the Europeans but servants and people who they could call to do something for them. Countless Natives had died because of what the Europeans had brought to them

Lewis and Clark were not respectful to the Native Americans they encountered on their journey. They killed a Native American unnecessarily, stole horses, and made unreasonable demands and threats.

On May 14, 1804 in the eastern city of Saint Louis, William Clark and Merry-weather Lewis set of on the westward adventure that would change America as we know it today. Their journey began on the Mississippi River, those rapids would propel Lewis and Clark into the "Corps of Discovery". Across the vast land that these men would soon travel lived the many native-american tribes. The Native people hunted freely across their western lands, lived their life as one with the ground they so carefully treaded on. Soon, the great American adventurers and the native people would meet, but one brought with them the foreshadowing of a new era. An era when American life would be greatly improved with new natural resources and plentiful free land, but only at the cost of ruining the native american people of their way of life. The Lewis and Clark Expedition expanded the knowledge and lifestyle of America but began the elimination of the original American natives way of life and culture.

Jefferson had secured agreement form the ambassadors of England, France, and Spain that their counties would not try to interfere with Lewis and Clark expedition. The explorers met with Osage Indians on their way of expedition but the Indians were peaceful. For unknown to Leis and Clark, the Spanish had reneged on the promise of safe conduct given to Jefferson by the Spanish ambassadors. Yrujo had warned his Spanish men that American were taking toward the South Sea and he urged commandant Salcedo general of Viceroyalty of New Spain to arrest Lewis and his followers and to seize all the documents that may be found on them. Then Salcedo encouraged his Indian allied to attack Lewis and Clark, but Comanches Indians never found them. The Lakotas was invited to the council by a French-Canadian interpreter who had lived among them and the first meeting with the Lakota was done well. I think Lewis and Clark could have exacted amicable relations if they were acting on their own because they both worked under the order of Jefferson to explore.

There are many different actions and responses which lead up to the Revolutionary War. But a few of the largest actions on the part of Britain were the Acts which were imposed on the colonists. The first attempt to tax the colonists was the Stamp Act, and was a colossal failure. When Britain established the Stamp Act in 1765, they were trying to move the tax burden from their own over taxed citizens, to the colonists, who, up to that point, hadn't truly been taxed at all. They tried again in 1773, with largely the same results. The colonists refused to support Britain and adamantly opposed the taxation of any and all goods by the crown. This was made worse by the struggling farmers and merchants who's businesses had been crippled by the taxes

the white settlers forced the natives to get lost, killed them, introduced diseases to them, alcohol, drugs, etc so as to undermine their tradition and culture and hence

Secondly, the atrocious way the Cherokee were treated was not morally justified. The trail the Cherokee traveled was unnecessarily arduous. This is shown in Document 9 from an eyewitness account that stated, “... even aged females, apparently nearly to drop into grave, were travelling with heavy burdens attached to the back -- on the sometimes frozen ground, and sometimes muddy streets, with no covering for the feet except what nature had given them.” This quote from Document 9 shows that Indians, in no physical condition to, had to carry large packs and had no protection from the harsh weather around them. Moving in that time period of course was always hard, but the amount of deaths could have been prevented (about 4,000 Natives died).

This describes the Cherokees being treated like trash and forced to evacuate their land as quickly as possible. It is written that there was no time to grab any belongings and when the Indians came back for their stuff, they had found their property missing or stolen. Although it had not happened yet, this sounds similar to the mistake on how the United States treated the Japanese during World War 2. An Indian Missionary named Daniel Buttrick agreed with the description of how they were treated from the previous article. Many “travelers” were complaining with the limited time and supplies they had and the harsh weather associated with their

The Anglo Americans treated the Native Americans as if they were the first people to live in America. The Americans did not count them in their federal census for the “purposes of representation”.

The Erie Canal had a major impact on trades from Canada. First of all, before the canal, people had to trade from coming dirt roads (Doc.2). Traveling on dirt road was time consuming. It took 28 days to reach Buffalo from New York City (Doc. 2). After the canal was built, it only 8 days. Not to mention, the cost per ton was cut down about 90 bucks (Doc. 2). This paved the way for New York City to become the busiest port city in America. (Doc. 1). Also, farmers were helped by this change. When the crops were ready to be transported, farmers loaded them onto ships in the canal and took them to different places(OI). Virginia Schomp called the growth because of the canal a “terrific boon”(Doc. 1). As a result, America was changed forever.

First off, Lewis and Clark unfairly

Despite the letter of law, Andrew Jackson and military forces marched in and forced Native-Americans to leave the lands they’ve lived for centuries. They all made this entire journey on foot, with no supplies, clothing, or food funded with them from the government. Thousands upon thousands of innocent people died along the way. The Native-Americans were all marginalized by having to leave everything they owned, having to march for hundreds of miles with no supplies, and lastly

Native Americans were treated rather unfairly. Casting Native Americans out of their homes was not only robbing them of their land, but their basic human rights as well. Many colonist refused to bond with Native Americans out of fear, eventually they got so scared of the Natives that they called for the “Indian Removal Act.” Andrew Jackson was the man behind the