The Permanent Arrival Of Europeans

By the 1800's most of the Native Americans signed a treaty with the European American government. The results left the Native Americans on small pieces of land called reservations in exchange for their land and peace. The European Americans promised that they would give the Indians living on the reservations food, water, money and education for the children. Most of these promises were not kept.

When Europeans first arrived to America, Indians were living in eight present states: Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, the Virginias, Alabama, and the Carolinas (Museum). Slowly, the Cherokee were forced to sign treaties giving away land to the new nation. In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson finally worked to pass a treaty that would force all Indians west of the Mississippi River. It wasn’t until Andrew Jackson

The dawn of the new American republic saw also the birth of U.S. Indian policy. In observing the bureaucracy of the United States government, one could clearly note the American view of proper dealings with Native peoples. It was the official U.S. policy to deal with the Indian tribes as separate foreign entities, grouping Choctaws, Shawnee, Cherokee and Creek peoples with the Spaniards, English and French. Curiously enough, the Secretary of War, not the Secretary of State, became responsible for Indian affairs. Clearly, the United States saw the Indians as a threat, either real or potential. In addition, the United States saw the Indians as a barrier to new and prosperous lands in the Western territories. An unofficial policy of provocation emerged. Using a multi-pronged assault, Americans would often enter Indian land and commit a crime worthy of retaliation by native peoples. Such an event precipitated Lord Dunmore's War; John Logan, a prominent Indian favored by many white men, was horrified to find his family murdered by white intruders. Vowing revenge, Logan led an attack on white settlements and the event quickly escalated to a full-blown war between the Shawnee and the whites, culminating in an Indian defeat and a subsequent land session. Such

Prior to the Revolutionary War, the Native Americans were considered to be an essential part to learning and living on the North American landscape. However, after the relationship between the Colonists and British tensed, the Native Americans found themselves in the middle of a war that would divide the Native American people. However, during the course of the war, the Native Americans had to consider who they should fight with/for. While both sides, the British and the Colonists, professed the benefits of fighting with/for them, the Native Americans’ decision would determine the fate of many Indian generations during the course of expansion in North America. On one side, the British offered diplomacy, land, and economic expansion; on the other, the Colonists promoted freedom, equality, and the promise of land. The struggle of the tribes to decide which side to fight for would prove to be the true battle that many of them would face. However, the relationships of the Native Americans and the English people did not start with the Revolution; it began almost two-hundred years prior in the settlement of Jamestown.

The Ohio Valley Region was known as the American frontier during the time period from 1760 to 1813. The white expansion into the Ohio Valley Region brought about the decline and the eventual dissolution of the Native American way of life. The struggles of the French and English in the north and the westward push of American settlers in the south were met with unified pro-nativist resistance. The individual struggles of three men characterize the turmoil between whites and Native Americans. Pontiac’s war against the English, Tecumseh’s organization of a unified Indian Confederation, and Daniel Boone’s leadership in the western migration into Kentucky demonstrate the fight for control in the Ohio

Looking throughout the overwhelming events the American Revolution had on everyone involved, allows us to examine how the governments’ policies toward the Indians changed over time. It shows how the policy changes effected the Indians as well as the Americans’, their attitudes toward each other as the American’s pushed westward and the Indians resisted. Then the actions on both sides which lead up to the final removal of all Indians to west of the Mississippi in 1830’s.

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 British in the Natives teamed up in July of 1778, destroyed and tortured the Wyoming Valley in Pennsylvania leaving hundreds of U.S. troops dead. They did the same to the Cherry Valley in New York and in Kentucky. In the 1780’s the Northwest Ordinance was passed, assuring that “…Indians would remain secure ‘in their property, rights and liberty’ unless Congress authorized ‘just and lawful wars’” (Gilje 2006, 96). The first “just and lawful war”, the Native Americans defeated the American Army, with the help of General Josiah Harmat.

Ashley Rogers U.S History 1110-A07 French and Indian War DBQ October 1, 2015 The French and Indian War took place in America from (1754-1763), this war was fought between the British American colonies and France. This war began as a dispute over the Forks of the Ohio, and was fought along the separation of British and French territories called the Ohio River Valley. The war was ended by the Treaty of Paris, which declared the British winners and forced France to give up all their territory east of the Mississippi River. The end of the war was not glorious for the British, as it severely altered their relationship with its American colonies, because the war lead to the British being more involved in the colonies economic and political affairs by increasing taxes and imposing unfair

Because of that alliance, the Iroquois joined with the British to place their own claim on the Ohio Country

The Native Americans did not like America’s expansion into their land. The British used this to their advantage as they supplied the Native Americans with weapons and information. During the War of 1812, 10,000 Native Americans fought on the British side. The Native Americans hoped to regain their land and to be recognized as their own “nation”. It was Britain’s goal to create an Indian State.

As the colonies began to move westward towards the end of the territories, the want began to grow more and more. In North America, Britain controlled the eastern seaboard and the French controlled Canada and New Orleans. In between these two large nations were the Indians who had already been forced to move their homes when Britain settled the thirteen colonies. For all three of these cultures one piece of land was important in keeping control. The Ohio Valley controlled the fork of rivers that could determine who would have control of the most land. The French would be able to connect Canada and New Orleans through the rivers. The British would be able to expand westward, giving them more land to expand their colonies. Finally, the Indians wished to keep their land to call home. In 1748, The French and Indian war began after George Washington and a group of men traveled through the woods to tell the French that they were on British land. The event that Washington witnessed changed him forever. He witnessed Jumonville being killed by Indians, this showed that they would not side with just the French or the

Many Native Americans moved into the trans-Appalachian region creating a Middle Ground where there wasn’t colonial power yet. Europeans and Native Americans had trouble in coexisting due to the diseases brought by the Europeans and to their agricultural practices. On the Middle Ground, Natives and white people could be equal. In fact, they sought benefits from each other for the purpose of survival. The goal of the natives was to continue to trade metal goods and weapons with the Europeans because they saw trading as a way to survive. In the mean time, they Indians played English and French against each other. On the other hand, the increase of individual trading ended up harming the Native Americans’ structure of authority because they no

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

European immigration to the colonies drastically changed between the late 1600s and the 1700s. At the beginning, it started out with the English coming to the colonies looking for a better life, but that did not work out too well. From there, things started to get worse and worse. However, there were some positive impacts on European immigration to the colonies. However, none of the positive impacts can change what had occurred around the 1700s, the beginning of slavery.