Respond to these 3 forum post 200 words each question by 8pm
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forum_5_hist.docx1. Shortly after the Revolutionary war and the colonists gained independence, Great Britain withdrew from the trans-Appalachian region in accordance with the Treaty of Paris of 1783. The British withdrew from the Appalachians taking there protection with them, leaving the Indians at the mercy of the new American colonists. White Americans did not take well to the already established indigenous people. Indians were believed to be savages, scavengers and “Paganistic.” A South Carolina Congressman said “Cut up every Indian corn field and burn every Indian town and their nation be extirpated and the lands become the property of the public.” I’m not sure if everyone knows but extirpated means, to root out or destroy completely. So as you can see the hate for the Indians was common throughout the colonists, even though looking at it now it seems morally wrong. Land rights have always been a struggle for Indians it seems as well. The U.S. government saw the Indians as conquered and the treaty was to publicly state they now owned and controlled the trans-Appalachians. The Indians did not take well to being told their land was now owned by someone else and being told they were “conquered”. Soon after, with military backing and the new Treaty of Fort Stanwix, they successfully confined the mighty Indians to reservations. They were able to use the same strategy in convincing the tribes to sign over majority of the state of Ohio. Once the tribes had realized they have been “had” they renounced their agreement and an alliance of tribes destroyed American militia sent by the president. After the loss American forces re attacked during the Battle of Fallen Timbers with twice the men and were victorious. After a long period of resistance, battle and several treaties, Americans accepted Indian ownership of the land and promised the Indians protection in a peace statement to avoid an alliance between the Indians and the British still occupying Canada. This and Jay’s Treaty of 1795 helped remove most of, if not all of, the British’s presence in the trans-Appalachian region.
Hamilton made many strides to enact his view of America into a reality. First, he asked Congress to create a national bank that would provide stability to the American economy by making loans to merchants, handling government funds, and issuing bills of credit (America: A Concise History, 2012). Hamilton asked Congress to redeem at face value the Confederation Securities held by domestic and foreign investors. This would give America, a developing country, good credit. People stood to make a lot of money off of this, and to pay these people Hamilton created the National Debt, which would be permanent. To pay for the interest on this debt he recommended adding taxes to new things such as foreign imports and domestic made whiskey.
Jefferson had completely different views on America. After seeing laborers in England struggle financially, he believed this would be the same result in America. He believed in working the land and selling American grown resources/crops to foreign nations. In return, they would get their clothes and other goods from those foreign nations. This all came to be true when France and England started to fight, causing the need of American goods to skyrocket, along with the prices.
3. For the forum this week I have chose to discuss the Resistance that Americans faced by the Native Americans in their attempt to expand the country west. This movement all began just after the end of the Revolutionary war and continued on for a long time after with several people losing their lives.
Roughly around the early 19th century is when the Native Americans began being displaced form their homes and forced further west to allow American settlers to take claim of their lands. Military conflicts over these forceful moves began after the declaration of the War of 1812 with the Native Americans assisting the British in the resistance of American settlers. This also caused a lot of hostility between certain Native groups as well, these groups being divided were known as the Accommodationists and Traditionalists. One group agreeing to adopt some of the settlers ways and the other completely apposing the whites and their wanted expansion into their already claimed territory.
Next the Americans claimed ownership of the trans-Appalachian west but the Native Indians refused to believe they had been conquered because they officially never surrendered those lands. Along with the settlers attempt to claim the land they also requested that the Natives assimilate into white culture and Christianity which again would outrage the native Americans. Overall the Natives fight to keep their land only slowed down what the settlers would call the great move west. After several years of fighting and being moved the Indians never won their lands and the move to build the western civilization was now in full affect just after the War of 1812.
