To blame Columbus for any of these, though, is to exonerate the policies, groups and individuals who practiced slavery and committed heinous crimes against humanity, including the French, English, U.S. military officers who massacred Native Americans at places like Sand Creek. Place blame on those who deserve it, not on Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus is a man worthy if the honors and accolades bestowed upon him. People should, and need to stop looking back 500 years and should
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`The election of Andrew Jackson in 1829 and his stubborn support of Indian removal provoked controversy not only in the Indian tribes, but also among the American community. Jackson's refusal to respect the independence of the Cherokee tribe, allowed the state of Georgia to assert its jurisdiction over the Cherokees. With Andrew Jackson's assistance, Indian Removal Act of 1830 was passed which authorized the relocation of eastern Indian tribes to lands west of the Mississippi River. President Andrew
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diseases brought to the new world, plants and animals from Europe, and European technology. When Europeans sailed across the Atlantic and settled in the New World they brought diseases to the natives that they had no natural immunity to. Small pox, measles, and malaria began to ravage across the Native American population. While outbreaks of a disease from Americas, polio began to spread across Europe. Both sides suffered immensely from diseases that were foreign to them.
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a hero than a villain. In document 1 the info tells me that Christopher Columbus was a hero. In his diary he was a hero because he was being nice to the native American. The native Americans came up to there boat in big canoes and brought balls of cotton, parrots, and javelins to trade with them. Most people would
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Jackson ordered the removal of the Cherokee’s in 1838 and they were sent off to Indian Territory, which is now Oklahoma. This is one of the hardest moments for not only the Cherokee but also many Native Americans. The reason why the name “Trail of Tears” is given is because many of the Native Americans would cry on their way to Indian Territory. Thousands died on their way because of hunger, harsh conditions, and
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and the U.S., but the Native Americans as well. Before the war started the British made deals with the Indians which provided the British protection from possible invasion of Canada and provided the Indians with a chance to protect their lands from the greedy, land-hungry Americans. However, the unlikely British-Native alliance of 1812 is seldomly ever mentioned, and few know about that amount of dependency each side had on one another. With this said, the Native Americans wanted an alliance with
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the crops from the Americas. Alfred Crosby, a widely-known journalist, said: “The great advantage of the American food plants is that they make different demands of soils, weather and cultivation than Old World crops, and are different in the growing seasons in which they make this demands. In many cases the American crops do not compete with Old World crops, but complement them. The American plants enable the farmer to produce food from soils that prior to 1492, were rated as useless because of
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When you think of Louisiana what comes to mind? A small boot-shaped state? Well, when Louisiana was first in the hands of the United States it was a very large territory that took up about a third of present-day America. Up until this point, his vast area of land had remained unexplored. As a result, the Lewis and Clark Expedition was initiated by the current president, Thomas Jefferson. The Lewis and Clark expedition was the exploration of the Louisiana purchase.America bought the Louisiana purchase
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trade routes. As a result, the Europeans stumble upon the New World. They established colonies in the New World and conquer the Native Americans that were living there. The Europeans goal was to become the most powerful and richest country in Europe. The Age of Exploration had both negative effects and positive effects. Although there were negative effects on the Native Americans, there were more positive effects on the Europeans. The Age of Exploration was due to Europeans sailing west in order to find
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The Louisiana Purchase’s impact on the U.S Have you ever wondered where the west came from, or how did people get to the west. The Louisiana purchase made the settlement of the west possible. It more than doubled the size of the U.S. It gave the U.S more waterways for transportation and settlement for agriculture. It also gave us an opportunity to head out west and help economically. The purchase of this land more than doubled the size of the United States. It expanded the U.S from the Mississippi
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