I chose to do research on my great, great, great, grandmother who lived during the eighteen hundreds. She settled in North Fork, Arkansas. I discovered after many hours of searching for a modern and historic map that the population had dropped dramatically. The population for her time was 1,128.79 while the town’s population now is about 550 residents she settled in a rural community. I think this could because of the different change in jurisdictional boundaries. I believe the geographic features did affect the settlement the patterns because during this time period most of the early settlers who came to Arkansas were farmers. As a result, they wanted soil with good vegetation which would produce more crops. I wasn’t able to find any churches or cemeteries on either on my …show more content…
For instance, lead mining brought a lot of jobs to the area as well as coal mining. I found something about each map that I studied. The historic map showed where the Five Civilized Tribes listed on the map while the modern map showed the highways and interstates. According Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture, it said, “Indians supplied much of what government Arkansas enjoyed during that period during which France and then Spain claimed the Mississippi River’s west bank. Theoretically, French and Spanish commanders at Arkansas Post enjoyed considerable political military, and juridical authority. They presumed to regulate trade, commercial hunting, and Indian relations. But the settler population was too small, scattered, and obstreperous, and soldiers too few, for the power to be very meaningful. Moreover, the Quapaw and Osage refused to be governed by European law. The Quapaw had made themselves too essential to French survival- and the Osage were simply too powerful- for either to be bullied into submission.”
One thing that I find very interesting is that the Osage were afraid of the Louisiana Purchase. This purchase caused problems, because of doubling the size of the United States.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF ROMANCE, ARKANSAS During the fall of 1850, a six-wagon, wagon train from Kentucky came upon a little valley with a good size creek. Their leader, Ben Pruitt, thought it looked like a good place to camp for the winter, and they did. By the time spring arrived they had named their settlement Kentucky Valley and called the creek, Cliffy Creek because of the cliffs in the creek and along its sides. One of those cliffs creates a rather large waterfall just a few hundred yards from the downtown area.
For example, when irrigation became a thing in Yuma County it was an opportunity for many people to start growing their crops in the area. Growing crops meant that you needed to be living in the area, and that led to land being used for housing and different types of businesses. Irrigation changed Yuma because throughout the years more and more land was being used for agriculture. Some of that land included canals, dams, houses, and businesses. For example, an irrigation canal was constructed and it was about ten miles in length.
In much of this chapter, Silkenat uses evidence mostly about refugees which could be found in the southwest of the state. More specifically, refugees who were in the vicinity of Flat Rock, which was near Hendersonville and Mount Airy. The author explains that the refugees that could be found in this area found hardships that were different from those in Piedmont. Because of the area, fewer refugees did not face overcrowding and famine as others did. Instead, they found difficulty with the local population within the mountains.
In 1742 the chief of Onondaga of the Iroquois Confederacy knew that his land that the people shared would become more valuable than it has ever been. (Doc B)The reason for this was because the “white people” also known as the Americans wanted the land of the chief. The feelings of the Chief result in complaining to the representatives of Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia,
The Act led to an array of legal and moral arguments for and against the need to relocate the Indians westward from the agriculturally productive lands of the Mississippi in Georgia and parts of Alabama. This paper compares and contrasts the major arguments for and against the
Bonus Opportunity After watching the “Appalachian Journey”, by Alan Lomax I conducted a question that could possibly be considered for an exam question. The question I propose is how has the mountaineer shaped and evolved the Appalachia region over time since the mountaineer over took the land from the Native Americans? In addition to this question, I will explain the relationship between the mountaineers and change by going in to detail of how the mountaineer shaped and evolved the Appalachia region. According the “Appalachian Journey” video the mountaineer has transformed the Appalachia region in several ways whether that’s storytelling, playing instruments, or by dancing. The mountaineer learned all these attributes from different cultures.
After the Civil War ended many people were in hope of finding land since population was increasing. Since the West was underdeveloped and uncivilized, many decided to expand the land. First the Louisiana Purchase increased the opportunity of expansion. Then industrialization and the Homestead Act also caused many companies encouraged to move West due to the low cost of land and that the transportation was provided through the railroads. In order to complete such goals, something had to be done with the Natives since it conflicted with their home area.
Throughout the seventeenth century, conflict between Europeans and Native Americans was rampant and constant. As more and more Europeans migrated to America, violence became increasingly consistent. This seemingly institutionalized pattern of conflict begs a question: Was conflict between Europeans and Native Americans inevitable? Kevin Kenny and Cynthia J. Van Zandt take opposing sides on the issue. Kevin Kenny asserts that William Penn’s vision for cordial relations with local Native Americans was destined for failure due to European colonists’ demands for privately owned land.
Throughout the 1840’s and 1890’s the natural environment shaped the development of the West beyond the Mississippi like, where the best and worst settlement would be in the West, how there was a struggle for the expansion that the settlers of the West were pushing for and, how aspects like cattle and mining would influence the settlers. There were many environmental changes, as well as expansion in the West, and the increase in knowledge and development in industry, that were occurring, and causing the development of the West beyond the Mississippi to be impacted along with the lives of those who lived their.
As for the western land, struggles over the state and national authority over the Native Americans affairs which were critical to sustain. Yet, the creation of two imperial superintendents was to manage relations with the tribes, the assertions of British’s rights to Native lands and a settlement boundary from the Proclamation of 1763 reserving territory west of the Appalachian crest for Native nations (Ablavsky, 2014). Therefore, it took eighteen years for the federal government to cede all states’ western land, as a result of the Continental Congress granting Virginia and large landowner’s “reserves of small land in the west (Schultz, 2010). With the government lacking the authoritative control, it could not regulate foreign trade or interstate commerce leaving states control over their own trade policies and unable to protect the manufacturing and shipping from the inability to establish commerce and economic
After the destruction of the Caddoan villages, the Osage were able to fully exploit the large buffalo herds of the plains region. Camped along the Salt Fork of the Arkansas River (present north-central Oklahoma) the Osage hunted the plentiful buffalo, which became their main source of food. Hunting took on a much greater level of importance while the Osage relied less on agriculture to fill their stomachs. The Osage spent increasing amounts of time away from the village hunting.
In 1767, Daniel Boone came upon Salt Spring (present day-David Kentucky,) during that time just a minimal amount of white men had ventured thus far. Appalachia was deemed unsafe due to the progressive combat among the French and British powers and the Native American tribes that declared rights to the mountains and its hunting resources. Once the British conquered the French followed by the Shawnee, the area was open for settlement. Within twenty plus years Kentucky became “overpopulated.”
Native Americans had once dominated the land now called America, but eventually, their lives would be destroyed by European Colonization. In arrival/ settlement of Europeans, a drastic change for Native Americans occurred forcing them to submit to White settlers, choosing between assimilation into a White culture or preserving their heritage and ancestry. A number of negative results would occur including disease, loss of land, and loss right of self-governing, with no remorse to Native American culture. At this point in time five Indian tribes are recognized as civilized, those being; Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee-Cree, and Seminole Indians, because of their acceptance to the acculturation that George Washington had proposed.
The nature of the spread of Moche-style architecture and pottery has been debated, with a theory of a Moche conquest state facing opposing theories of a “Mochelandia”, the diffusion of a Moche art style or religion across multiple valleys. In the Santa Valley, widespread changes in settlement patterns between the Gallinazo Late Suchimancillo period and the Moche Guadalupito period, including the movement of people from the upper valley to the lower valley, the maximization of arable land, the abandonment of Late Suchimancillo sites and citadels, and the establishment of a regional center support the theory of a Moche conquest in the region. Settlements in the Late Suchimancillo period are clustered in the narrow upper river valley (maps a and b). This region has a high concentration of settlements, including the local centers at sites 11, 25, 45, 72, and 103. These centers, not including their surrounding settlements, together held a population of about 10,000, or roughly one third of the Santa Valley’s total population.