“Battle of Little Bighorn” The Native Americans fought against union soldiers because, even after the union took over the Native Americans land and banished them to live Oklahoma, they came in and took the place they gave them to live in push that even farther west. After being pushed around so much and being taken out of lands that they have build houses on and farmed, they just couldn 't take it anymore. The lights have went far enough in the Indians decided to take matters into their own hands. Americans were constantly beating up, killing, and messing around with the Indian tribes.
Shortly after in 1836 the trail of tears took place. This was where the Cherokees were forced out of their land and moved west. Majority of the Cherokees fought against it, and few agreed. It was a troubling time for the native Americans, and the United States got their land to expand on. The next and one of the most important factors that led to the end of manifest destiny was the Texas revolution.
After Cheyennes were captured, and they were forced to live under the command of Department of the Interior at Fort Robinson. The Indians would later escape, and planned to return home to the Dakota. The Cheyennes told the army that they would rather die than return south, since it was infested with disease. Then the army reported this to the Interior, and tried to make a deal between the Indians and the Interior. The Interior would reject this offer, and told them that the Cheyenne would have to return south.
Indians had lived in the same areas for many years and had become much more accustomed to being civilized and had even started schools, making laws and becoming farmers. But all of that didn’t matter, there was increasing pressure to open up the area the Indians inhabited so the white men could settle there. The Indian Removal Act stated that all Indians must move to lands west of the Mississippi River, Jackson said the Indians would receive money for the land they lost and that all expenses would be paid for. The act was supposed to be voluntary but they were pressured to go and the tribes that did not go peacefully were forced. While most tribes did go peacefully the Cherokee Indians wanted to fight the Removal Act and took it to the Supreme
But Jackson still forced them out and the Native Americans which they called the Indian removal act. The Cherokee nation knew they wouldn't survive if they fought so they
The Compromise of 1820 was about the issue of slavery in new territories. Initially Missouri wanted to be admitted to the Union as a slave state, but this would interfere with the balance between free states and slave states. If Missouri were to be admitted as a slave state the South would have more power in the Senate than the North. During the next session of congress Maine applied to the Union as a free state. By adding Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state the Senate’s equilibrium would be established again.
Ever since the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the creed for America to expand became very prominent. But, as the nation continued to expand its territorial limits, the issue arose about the increasing number of indian attacks that were being perpetuated by the British. Indian attacks hindered the American belief of manifest destiny and continued to place America as an inferior people under Britain’s superior rule. An example of a British-sponsored indian raid took place in mid-America in 1811. As the treatment of indian tribes and families became abhorrent, two brothers: Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa, erected the Indian Confederacy.
When white Americans started to expand farther West, they would inevitably encounter Native American land and become increasingly aggravated and disappointed when they were unable to settle that piece of land. Because of this, the Indians became subject to significantly more lawful wars, as defined by Congress, when they continued to resist the Western expansion settlers. The Native Americans weren’t always defeated, which was frightening to some whites who realized that if the Native Americans wanted to rebel against the white American settlers, they might have the numbers to fight back, pushing settlers east, off their claimed
In the late 1800s, tensions were rising between white Americans and Native Americans. The white Americans wanted the Native Americans to conform to their definition of civility. The Native Americans had clung tightly to their culture and religious practices during a time of continuous encroachment and governmental pressure by the white Americans. By this time, Native Americans had already been forced westward onto reservations through government action. Andrew Jackson had set this migration in motion earlier in the century, and the migration pattern would later be referred to as the “Trail of Tears”.
As America was expanding and more people were traveling out west, they discovered that another group also had claimed that land, the Native Americans. The Native Americans were not happy to discover that the “white man” was claiming their land. This tension caused many attacks on the western settlers, and left them calling for war. The last string that was left with the natives was snapped when a Shawnee chief named Tecumseh began attempting to unite the tribes to create a resistance force against the western settlers. The united tribes, led by Tecumseh, referred to themselves as the Red Stick Confederacy.
Before being belittled and degraded completely, they would be kept around until they were proven to be no more use to the settlers in their native land. During Manifest Destiny, the Lakota Sioux were very well-known for their selling and trading of buffalo hides to the American Fur Company and Missouri Fur Company. The United States used the buffalo to control them by killing them off when needed. Also, after the migration west from the Gold Rush of 1849, settlers would harass and murder Mexicans and Indians for their land. Before Manifest Destiny, the Cherokee challenged the Indian Removal Act of 1830 to the Supreme Court.
1st Set of Journal Entries Entry 1: Accounts of the Wounded Knee Massacre What was the Wounded Knee Massacre? The Wounded Knee Massacre or the Battle of the Wounded Knee was the last armed conflict between the Great Sioux Nation and the United States of America. It occurred at Wounded Knee, South Dakota on December 29, 1890. The United States Army used Hotchkiss cannons while Sioux warriors were poorly unarmed.
Some Native Americans wanted to stay and fight for their land and others wanted to leave for money. The Cherokee wanted to stay in their lands so they decided to stay. The Chief John Ross of the Cherokee tribe resisted to leave until the end. Then soldiers came and forcefully made them leave their land and were held at gunpoint. The Indians had to walk thousands of miles.
On July 17, 1830, the Cherokee nation published an appeal to all of the American people. United States government paid little thought to the Native Americans’ previous letters of their concerns. It came to the point where they turned to the everyday people to help them. They were desperate. Their withdrawal of their homeland was being caused by Andrew Jackson signing the Indian Removal Act into law on May 28, 1830.
The treaty the US government signed with the Indians in 1851 granted the Indians to have an extensive territory, which means the Indians can get more land, but eventually that did not last(doc 3,4). One of the most important and well-known wars was the Sand Creek Massacre. On November 29, 1864, John Chivington led 700 troops in an unprovoked attack on the Arapaho and Cheyenne villagers. There they killed over 200 women, children, and older men. US Indian Commissioner admitted that :We have substantially taken possession of the country and deprived the Indians of their accustomed means of support.”
