Joshua Mauzy ACP US History Mod 7 10/26/15 Should Andrew Jackson Stay On The 20 Dollar Bill? Andrew Jackson, born March 15, 1767, was the 7th president of the United States of America. He helped America become where we are now.
Many people remain unfamiliar with the biological and cultural ties that exist between African Americans and Native Americans. European colonial expansion and racial constructs led to slavery, expulsion, and wars that brought three different races to collide and compete for the same limited space. With European colonial expansion, free and enslaved Africans ran away to Native American lands for refuge. These encounters led to an increased population of mixed-race people attempting to redefine a new identity for the Americas. Africans, Indians, and some Europeans would form alliances that for decades contributed to fighting colonial domination.
With slavery on the rise in Virginia during the colonial period, many questions may arise concerning this point. For example, one may ask: What were the working conditions like? What was the average work hours? How were their living conditions? With most of the slaves at the colonial period in Virginia working on tobacco fields, the land on which they farmed quickly became infertile.
Chapter 2, “Drawing the Color Line “expresses how slavery began in the Americas. The first slaves in America were brought over by ship to Virginia. These people who were brought to the Americas were listed as “servants”, but they were viewed very differently from the white servants and were treated more like slaves. Because of the combination of inferior status and derogatory thought we call racism, the inferior position of blacks in America remains for the next 350 years. Virginians of 1619 were desperate for labor because they needed to grow enough food to stay alive to avoid another starving time.
In 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia, 105 English settlers established a diplomatic relationship with Powhatan the Algonquian chief . The agreement was that the Native Americans would supply the English settler’s food, and the settlers would not mess with the natives land. Things were doing pretty good till the English settlers became forceful and impolite to the natives, they started treating them like garbage. The natives took it upon themselves and decided to let the settlers go hungry. That is when the battle began.
Spain in the New World As the Spanish began to conquer land in the Americas from the 1500s to 1600s, their demand for goods to bring back to Europe caused a greater need for labor in which the Spanish were not willing to provide themselves. The Spanish were also aspiring to spread the Christian faith unto the Native Americans. When such did not go as planned they used the Native’s rebellion against the Catholic faith as an excuse to use them to force them into laboring for the good of Spanish wealth. The Native Americans were treated unfairly under the system of Encomiendas, causing a change of attitude and governmental protocol by the Spaniards and soon imported the African population to supply their labor. Document one shows a letter written
The early 1620’s called upon desperate measures for the Virginians, surges of hunger so violent that it caused some to go mad and eat anything- the corpses of loved ones took a large popularity on the menu- they became despondent to grow food and stay alive, human nature beginning to take over. The Virginians had finally developed a “better” system that differed from their starvation of the time. Having had just recently committed the first few acts of slavery, Jamestown kicked off a big bang for the journey of slavery for the average dark, non-leisure men of the world. Aside from the Indians, all people in the newly discovered United States were unaware of how to grow food and prosper greatly in the new world. The fact that the Indians knew how to succeed in the new land angered all the white men, soon most of the Indian population had been killed off, and the white men were still struggling, just no longer in comparison to the Indians.
When people are born into a family or town where there is slavery, they are taught that and only that, which makes them think that it is right. Then these people have kids and teach the the same thing, eventually turning into a ton of people believing in slavery. One of the most important disputes the North and South had was westward expansion. No one could figure out how to keep the amount of free and slave states equal. The two tried to keep it as equal as they could for a long time, but it got too out of hand.
In the early 17th century, colonists in North America turned to slaves as an inexpensive and abundant work force. Because slaves aided in the production of lucrative crops such as cotton, slaves became important to the economic foundation of America. Yet by the 1790s, slavery was in decline due to land exhaustion and the coming of the Second Great Awakening. From 1775 to 1830, many African Americans were emancipated, yet during this same time period the institution of slavery expanded hugely. This seemingly paradoxical trend occurred predominantly as a result of differences in two geographic regions.
Wanting land for crop production, having racial prejudice towards Indians, and discovering gold on the Cherokee land influenced the whites to remove the Cherokees from their homeland.
Juan Ponce de Leon: Hero or Villain? By Beau Klein Everywhere you go in St. Augustine, Juan Ponce de Leon’s name is on mostly everything. Was he really such a hero?
The Yamasee War When the colonist settled in North America, conflict with the Native Americans began and they never ended. The Yamasee War was one of many conflicts. The Yamasee was a bloody war that killed over 400 colonist in South Carolina. The colonist vigorously stole, lied, and forced the Yamasee into slavery. To not be viewed as weak the Yamasee raided the colonist homes and plantations to kill and destroy them and their property.
It is an obvious truth that in order to have a functioning society, there must be workers. In modern, first world countries, labors are paid well and are reasonably treated. However, some third world nations use an economic model harkening back to older times—slavery and serfdom. Between 1450 and 1750, European countries in the Caribbean and in the Old World utilized two forms of cheap labor—slavery and serfdom—to line their coffers and feed their populace. In the Caribbean, slavery was preferred; but in Russia, serfdom ruled.
“Seminole Indians” The Seminole Indians were a “Native American tribe of Central Florida” (Swygart 1). The term “Seminole” means runaway or pioneer. This was because the first Seminoles were originally members of the Creek tribe that migrated south: “Seminole History begins with bands of Creek indians from Georgia and Alabama who migrated to Florida in the 1700’s”
Immigration in Colonial America Colonial America was a place full of opportunities. Many foreigners who realized this decided to move there. Although many foreigners decided to move to Colonial America, some never had any intentions on going to America. Many of them were sent to America because they were forced or sold into slavery. Since many of the other countries did not support religious freedom or treat the citizens fairly, the foreigners decided to leave.
