APUSH P4 11/30/15 SRQS Chapter 13 – IMPENDING CRISIS How were the boundary disputes in Oregon and Texas resolved? • • Britain and the United States both claimed sovereignty in the Northwest, a dispute initially resolved by an 1818 treaty allowing “joint occupation” by settlers from either nation. • • Considerable numbers of Americans migrated to the Northwest in the 1840s. Despite conflicts with Indians, these migrants were able to establish permanent settlements and urged the U.S. government to solidify American claims in the region.
In 1823, Mexico passed the General Colonization Law opening Texas to colonization and presenting impresario grants to individuals hoping to help encourage settlement and economic growth in the remote Mexican land of Texas. The Mexican government, later on, adopted the Constitution of 1824 making Texas joined with Mexico as part of the larger state of Coahuila y Tejas. Texas joining as a larger state-led to disadvantages such as the political power being placed in a more populous neighboring province of Coahuila. When becoming a larger state Texans enjoyed their own representative government at the local and provincial levels, so when Texans found out that politicians in the Coahuila city of Saltillo formed a new government in August that took
Both the US and Great Britain acknowledged the claims of the other party. There was a reoccurring pattern of diplomatic offers and rejections. The British had the upper hand from 1821-1840s due to their sphere of influence over the Oregon Country under the monopoly of the Hudson Bay Company. What really changed the course of the Oregon Question was the influx of American settlers. This increase in settlement changed the severity of the Oregon Question on both sides.
One of the lasting impact the Spanish settlements had; the settlers created a bad relationship with the natives. The natives had several purposes to contemn the settlers. One reason being, in document c, that it states that the natives inculpated the settlers, or more specifically priests, for transporting disease from Spain to the native’s motherland. Corresponding to the natives, the settlers also have their motives for resenting the natives. For instance, the Apache and Comanches tribes had slaughtered several innocent settlers and soldiers, as well as raiding a couple of missions around San Antonio and La Bahia (doc b).
1) Compare and contrast the French and Spanish experiences in the New World. a. As the Spanish empire spread over the southern portion of the present-day United States, the mission was developed to colonial development and to convert the Indians. More importantly the Spanish were there to get gold and other riches. On the other hand French wanted to increase trade. They traded textiles, weapons, and metal goods.
The Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 established means of settlement and eventual statehood in the “Old Northwest,” the area northwest of the Ohio River, east of the Mississippi River, and south of the Great Lakes. The states were expected to surrender their claims in these areas (the claims were largely controlled by Virginia, Georgia, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and North and South Carolina). This agreement helped to forge stronger bonds between the states, but Spain and Britain still controlled forts and territories inside the United States. Spain controlled New Orleans and the Mississippi River after the Treaty of Paris in 1783, while Britain continued to hold forts and other outposts in the States. In a 1785 letter by John Jay to the Minister to Great Britain, Jay implored the Minister to “in a respectful but firm manner insist that the United States be put, without further delay, into possession of all the posts and territories within their limits, which are now held by British garrisons” and loosen trade and debt repayment restrictions.
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.
The Columbian Exchange between the new world and the old world significantly change people’s lives. After 1492, Europeans brought in horses to America which changes the nomadic Native American groups’ living from riding on buffalos to horses. This interchange also change the diet of the rest of the world with foods such as corns (maize), potatoes which are major diet for European nowadays. Besides all the animals from old world to the new world, Spanish also brought in the diseases that Native Americans were not immune of, such as smallpox which led to a large amount of Native Americans’ deaths.
“Aztlan, Cibola and Frontier New Spain” is a chapter in Between the Conquests written by John R. Chavez. In this chapter Chavez states how Chicano and other indigenous American ancestors had migrated and how the migration help form an important part of the Chicanos image of themselves as a natives of the south. “The Racial Politics behind the Settlement of New Mexico” is the second chapter by Martha Menchaca.
On the other hand, the Americans were very greedy at the time and wanted to expand their land westward of the Appalachian mountains. Before, this was a border that they we're not supposed to cross to give the Indians their space. But, as the population increased and every state grew more and more populated, people got cranky and said we have to move West. The Americans had formed the Northwest Territory earlier on July 13, 1787, but now felt they needed even more land.
The United States' Journey towards a More Perfect Union: Colonization, Expansion, and their Impact on Native Americans The United States' pursuit of a more perfect union after colonization and expansion was marked by both progress and challenges. While these processes brought about economic growth, territorial asset, and political development, they also had a profound impact on Native American communities, resulting in displacement, cultural obliberation, and the erosion of their sovereignty. Despite the existence of counterclaims asserting that the United States' expansion offered new opportunities for Native Americans to integrate into mainstream society and benefit from modernization. It is clear however that the quest for a more perfect union was marred by significant injustices inflicted upon Native Americans. The colonization and expansion of America led to economic growth, fostering the United States' vision of a more perfect union.
The Oregon Trail didn’t follow a single set path. While most Oregon bound emigrants traveled a route that passed by landmarks in Missouri Kansas Wyoming and Oregon there was never just one set of wagon ruts leading west. Frontier explorers and fur trappers blazed the rough outlines of the Oregon Trail in the early 19th century, but the route was initia considered too demanding for women, children or covered wagon to navigate. That year Marcus helped lead the first major wagon train of around one Thousand Settler along the Oregon trail an exodus now know as the great migration. Traffic soon skyrocketed and by the late 1840 's and early 1850 upwards of 50 thousand people were using the trail each year.
Through upbringing, children learn right from wrong, be it about language, stealing, or other behavior. Yet this is not true in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (a satire by Mark Twain, 1884). Young Huck never experienced a home that felt like home, or taught the rights and wrongs of life. Between his father Pap and The Widow’s influence on him, Huck was as confused as a chicken in a pillow factory. The immoral Pap passed his negativity and uncivilized lifestyle to Huck.
The English were more concerned with finding gold rather than building functioning societies; which were primarily built around biblical teachings, while the Spanish intended for European national power to extend to western civilization beginning with Catholicism and influence of the pope. English settlers were driven from England due to religious practices and perceived themselves as saving the Indians from the Spanish and their tyrannical ways. For the English, owning land would give men control over their own labor and the right to vote in most colonies, and this land possession would show wealth. This new obtained wealth would not only have demonstrated power, but it could also be used to influence a society a certain way to convince others to follow suit. The English believed that their motives for colonization were pure, and that the growth of empire and freedom would always go together, unlike the Spanish.
As the world of global exploration and colonization grew, many powerful European empires set out to see what the New World had in store for them. Each empire had their own individual agendas and incentives for colonization. This led to the many differences between methods of colonization and exploration in every colony and region. The Atlantic World portrayed these contrasts between the Spanish, French, Dutch and British empires. However, the British settlements along the Eastern seaboard differed the most from those of other empires because there were no established policies or methods in British colonization, which led to differences in the economics and culture of each colony depending on who settled it.
