The Emigrants

wagon, or even try abandoning their wagons in order to flee as far as possible from it. The few remedies developed against it were Laudanum and camphor, for everything else there were home remedies such as baths and herbs used. In general, the emigrants and Native Americans had a hostile relationship filled with fear and uncertainty. The whites would usually be distrustful and ignorant toward the Natives. This wasn't always the case though, according to Miriam A. Thompson some Natives were eager

The westward expansion was a fresh start for white emigrants, not so much for the Native Americans who were already living there. From the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s the Native Americans were mistreated by the US Government by being forced from their home, from their way of living. By 1881 white emigrants killed off the majority of the buffalo simply for their hides or just for sport. Even though treaties were signed battles still broke out between white settlers and the Native Americans. Many

large population of emigrants. Based on the arrows, I can observe there were two inter-region migrations that consisted of over eight million emigrants. Those were from south Mexico to the United States and India to Saudi Arabia. There was also a large wave of intra-region emigrants around the area of Saudi Arabia. The United States has a vast amount of emigrants coming from the eastern and southern countries. The main similarity between map one and two is the amount of emigrants coming to the United

1846. As a matter of fact, it was led by two wealthy brothers, Jacob and George Donner. As well as, nearly 90 emigrants left Springfield, Illinois and headed west. They attempted to take a shorter route to California, but were unsuccessful and as a result, they got trapped by heavy snowfall in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. While following the regular California trail, the emigrants decided to take a "shorter" route suggested by a trail guide, Lansford Hastings. By all means, he assured them

The history of Cuban immigration to the United States is vastly different than that of any other immigrant group. This difference have been codified into law and policy with the purpose of crippling Castro’s communist regime. Many immigrant groups and Americans have viewed the laws and policies as discriminatory as they clearly established preferential treatment, economic and education advantages of one immigrant group over another. After The U.S. government passed the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966

is the difference between an Immigrant and an Emigrant? Immigrant and Emigrant are very similar terms used in different perspectives. An immigrant is a person or a group of people leaving their country to settle in another country. An emigrant is a different perspective of an immigrant. To the country they are moving from, they are known as emigrants. For example, a Australian person migrates to America. In Australia, the person is known as an emigrant. However, in America the migrant is known as

rhetorical devices tone, diction, and pathos to achieve hopefulness in a way to persuade his wife to emigrate to the state. The tone in the letter was optimistic. As he says, "there is too many people...it is quite the reverse; there was more than 1000 emigrants came in the day after i landed," expressing his awe over this oppurtunity that many say is rare. "This is a country where a man can stand as a man..." he uses this to achieve hopefulness, in that you can be your own person and finally live with "rational

persuaded John D. Lee to be and William Bateman to act as a decoy to draw the emigrants out from the protection of their wagons. John D. Lee and William Bateman were waving a white flag, marched across the field and talked to the emigrants to leave their weapons, wagons, and cattle for there could be no harm from the Mormons. That was a lie. The emigrants listened to Lee and they were walking with a mormon by their side. Every emigrant men and women had a Mormon by their side with a gun. Then after a quarter

Children, the very special group of people in this world, who are vulnerable to the sexual abuse the most. Although the federal government as well as NGOs are putting a lot of effort on preventing children from sexual abuse, the situation has not been alleviated. Thus, it is fairly to argue that child sexual abuse (CSA) is one of the most critical social issues in Australia. In 2012, the Royal Commission had conducted a 5-year detailed national-wide survey about the facts, the problems, the barriers

Every since John Ford’s 1939 western Stagecoach, the West has been portrayed in art, entertainment, and literature as a desolate arid landscape of mountains and deserts. The story or movie backdrop was usually set in America’s colonial era and often included small frontier towns with saloons, the local jail, and ranches on the outskirts of town. The main characters were ranchers, handsome gun slinging wayward cowboys donning Stetsons, savage Indians raging havoc against settlers, and outlaw gangs