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wars with Native Americans. During 1860, Americans kept on migrating throughout the Great Plains to get more land and discover gold, silver, and other minerals. There was a land called the Black Hills that was considered sacred by many Native Americans. In 1875 the U.S. government opened up the land to allow gold mining. The Native Americans who inhabited that land refused to leave, so the U.S. military decided to relocate them using force. Military general Custer troops decided not to follow the specific orders that the U.S. military made and attacked a Cheyenne village. Many of his men including Custer died. As revenge the U.S. military came, and forced the Cheyenne and Sioux onto reservations. Another reason they wanted the land was because …show more content…

Thanks to no government interventions businesses were able to help improve the economy by playing by no rules and doing what they see fit. While businesses grew, the working class struggled to survive. Farmers who were once living comfortably soon faced a wall as they struggled to sell things in the market. More Americans got involved in politics during this age but the government was so corrupted that their votes didn’t matter. Positions in the government would be sold and votes would be bought. This was also the age with the forgettable presidents because they didn’t do anything. While the presidents weren’t that special some of them did make a couple awful laws that excluded immigrants. Many people disliked immigrants because they felt that they were taking away jobs and making jobs lower wages. It came to a point that the U.S. created immigration stations. While the government continued to do little to no work, they continued to push Native Americans off their land. The government they would murder and move immigrants whenever they felt like it. The government intervened only when it came to pleasing themselves meanwhile they let businesses do what they

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After the recent readings for Zinn’s book, I began to do some research on the Indians helping the British during the Revolutionary War. I Google “Roles of Indians during the Revolutionary War,” and I sound a very interesting site that backed up Zinn’s statement. Many of the Indians, especially the Shawnee, Creeks and the powerful Cherokee and Iroquois helped the British in the American Revolution. The British promised Indians more than their freedom, they also promised to stop settlement on their land. However, there are some Indians that fought for America as well, those tribes were most involved with people who would become Americans.

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The Iroquois Confederacy is similar to the United States government because of the following. Firstly, both governments having the choice to vote for their leader. Secondly, each tribe/town had its own government. Lastly, and the Iroquois and the United States government both have a similar way of passing laws. To begin with both governments having the choice to vote for their leader.

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French and Indian War Great Britain wanted land west of the Appalachian Mts., but the French wouldn’t give it up. They started a war that was fought in Europe, and Britain fought out the rest of the war in Europe and expected the colonists to pay off the remaining debt, even though the colonists couldn’t move into the land that was won. The colonists got mad because Britain expected them to pay the debt off. The Proclamation of 1763 Great Britain put in place a proclamation and told the colonies that they had to pay for the war and that the war that Britain had fought won the land, but they couldn’t move to the land that they had won. Even if the colonists paid for the land they were forbidden from moving to the land.

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The government role expanded from 1877-1920 because of all the power that was being abuse by the rich. For a long time, the country dealt with inequality, such as paying anyone who was not a white man less and over working them. Not only was abused power and inequality pay depending on your color or gender or age a problem but the food was being processed with chemicals that made people sick and in other cases die. The growing of the government is good because it shortened work hours for women, made it safer to eat meat and other foods, and dealt with politicians who bought their way to office.

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When these major events occurred in the Gilded Age, it caused periods of success, failure, and sometimes overall no change. Some outcomes of these new ideas being formed caused corruption, but led to the government and politics becoming much stronger and more organized. Most of the ideas published wanted to increase wealth and rivalries between businesses. Even though the Gilded Age benefited with the reforms created and fell with it’s poor use of money, it helped create the way we run our government

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