Indian Fur Trade History

In 1893 Frederic Jackson Turner a historian, introduces the “Frontier Thesis” in Columbian Exposition, he explains from this thesis about the importance of American history. Frontier thesis remarks the end of a great historic society. Because Frederic Jackson argues that continuous western settlement had an extraordinary impact on American social, political and economic development throughout 20th

Indians, blacks, and white Europeans enjoyed significant freedom and autonomy throughout the French occupation of the Gulf region. However, the division of the region between the Spanish and Great Britain greatly altered these cross-culture and interracial interactions and created the beginning of a plantation agriculture economy. He argues that export-directed economy supplanted the frontier exchange economy which negatively changed the social contract between Indians, blacks, and European settlers. The transition from small producers to a full-scale commercialized economy enforced by planters, merchants, and colonial authorities through military use and the law ultimately eliminated the economic autonomy of the regions non-elite; Indians, blacks, and European settlers. The effects of these new economic and social developments consequently restricted blacks to plantation labor, small-scale land owners suffered from the inability to compete with large-scale plantations, and Indians underwent high restrictions and regulated trades with Spain and Great Britain for deer

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Creek Indians, also known as the Muscogee, were one of the most powerful and influential indigenous nations in what is now considered the southeastern United States. Creek Country, a book written by Robbie Ethridge, describes the different traditions, economics, and interactions with different countries that the Creek Indians participated in. The main aspects that will be discussed throughout this essay is the involvement of the Creek Indians with their relationship to the land, their economic activities, and how they displayed their gender roles. All of these different things that the Creek Indians exhibited in their lifestyles can be viewed to see how they thrived and also failed throughout

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,

It was important for the new states to receive the same rights when they entered the Union as the existing states. The Northwest Ordinance set the identity for the United States in many ways. The ordinance put aside land in each township for education. It established government, voting regulations, land ownership and laid out regulations for estates. It encouraged free religion, set rules for taxation

Though agriculture clearly played a fundamental role in Wisconsin’s existence, no component proved more paramount than that of timber. This realm more than any else molded Wisconsin into the self sufficient commercial-centric state that it is today, and thus propelled it into the public eye. Even Eau Claire early on was notable for maintaining a distinct and reputable timber industry itself. Not only did the plethora of wood provide more than enough resources to aid in constructing the ever-expanding popular railroads, which physically connected Wisconsin to everywhere else, but it also metaphysically shifted Wisconsin from settlement transience to established permanence. Settlers would no longer live in rudimentary shacks, but true, massively statured buildings.

The Pacific northwest is located on the west edge of America. Pacific Northwest is smaller than The Eastern woodlands, but its longer. Like the Eastern Woodlands there is very dense forests, but the Pacific northwest has very heavy rainy climate. They also have mountains and rivers. The Pacific Northwest was very similar to the Eastern Woodlands, and examples such as they both live in longhouse, they both have a water source that provides good resources, and many trees for houses.

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.

The Northwest territory was slowly becoming a part of America. Many Americans already lived in the territory and the idea of a Northwest passage had not been forgotten. Annexing the Northwest territory would allow for America to expand. not only for people, but also for farms. Presidents like Thomas Jefferson strongly encouraged the expansion of agriculture.

As more and more White people migrated into Cherokee land, the Cherokees became dependent on trade good, such as knives and hoes made of metal, hatchets, kettles, bolts of cloth, rum, firearms and ammunitions. Guns replaced bows as the primary weapon used for hunting and warfare as the Cherokees moved from subsistence hunting to commercial hunting. Women spent more time than before preparing hides for the deer skin trade. Trade facilitated the movement toward a centralized government, and the position of “trade commissioner”, Wro-setasetow, came into being, in order to coordinate trade with the colonies. (Steve

Merrell’s article proves the point that the lives of the Native Americans drastically changed just as the Europeans had. In order to survive, the Native Americans and Europeans had to work for the greater good. Throughout the article, these ideas are explained in more detail and uncover that the Indians were put into a new world just as the Europeans were, whether they wanted change or

The Pacific Northwest region has turned from a small town into a huge urban city. It is a land once occupied by the Native, unknown to the rest of the world. As time passed, it has developed and it reached to the point where different types of people and cultures gushing in to start a new life in the Pacific Northwest. From the mid-1840s into the 1900s, the growth of Pacific Northwest splurge with no indication of stopping. The introduction of industrialization and mechanization in the Pacific Northwest accelerate and boost its growth and development.

During the “Gilded Age” period of American history, development of the Trans-Mississippi west was crucial to fulfilling the American dream of manifest destiny and creating an identity which was distinctly American. Since the west is often associated with rugged pioneers and frontiersmen, there is an overarching idea of hardy American individualism. However, although these settlers were brave and helped to make America into what it is today, they heavily relied on federal support. It would not have been possible for white Americans to settle the Trans-Mississippi west without the US government removing Native Americans from their lands and placing them on reservations, offering land grants and incentives for people to move out west, and the

Before the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, many states own land in the area that was considered in the Northwest, is east of the Mississippi River and North of the Ohio River. When all the states were in debt from the American Revolution, the Central government offered that if the states gave up their land in the Northwest, the central government will pay their debt. This was named the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. This also created rules on creating a new state. The land that the states gave up cannot have slaves and in order an area to become a state, they must have a population of 5000 males or 60000 people.

“Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress”, chapter one of “A People’s History of the United States”, written by professor and historian Howard Zinn, concentrates on a different perspective of major events in American history. It begins with the native Bahamian tribe of Arawaks welcoming the Spanish to their shores with gifts and kindness, only then for the reader to be disturbed by a log from Columbus himself – “They willingly traded everything they owned… They would make fine servants… With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.” (Zinn pg.1) In the work, Zinn continues explaining the unnecessary evils Columbus and his men committed unto the unsuspecting natives.