US Histroy-westward expansion wars & indians

US History-Westward Expansion Wars Indians

This concentrates upon the historical expansion of the USA over the territory of Native Americans , this process as a series of wars was hard and challenging for both sides

At the beginning of the 19th century , when United States were growing really quickly , expanding the territories to the South , there appeared impediment on their way , namely the territories which used to be the native lands of the Cherokee , Greek , Choctaw , Seminole tribes . For white Americans these people were not defending their own lands , they were causing

obstacles for the progressive growth , whereas they needed these lands so much for growing cotton , thus were doing everything possible to make the Federal government to submit the territories of Indians . The main reason of these wars is believed to be the colonial interest of the US

Generally historians describe these events using the term Indian Wars - conflicts between the USA and Native Americans or Indians . This term also includes the colonial wars , before the United States were created During the period starting from the mentioned colonial wars till the American frontier of 1890 Indians had to go thought the process of assimilation , dissimilation and were made to relocate to special places which were later called Indian reservations . One scholar has noted that the more than 40 Indians wars from 1775 till 1890 reportedly claimed the lives of some 45 .000 Indians and 19 .000 of whites (J Tebbel , K . Jennison , 11

Generally talking about Native Indians , we have to underline that actually these were not all the same people , there were some formal unites , that took part in the wars , the main decisions about wars and peace were also taken locally , and there were certain leaders of the alliances . One of the examples can be the Iroquois Confederation

Most scholars nowadays state that it would be too simple and not deep enough to consider these wars as just racial wars between Indian people and American people , the fact was that Indians didn 't struggle only with white people , they also fought with Indians as well . The result of the wars was however rather of single meaning , namely the conquest of the United States of Native Americans

The years from 1622 to 1774 are called colonial era for America . This period of time includes the wars between Native Americans and the USA before the Declaration of independence was issued . Colonial powers in North America had to subdue the resistance of the native people , trying to overcome their hostility . The following 70 years were the wars against the United States that were newly formed . The year 1763 is known for the Pontiac 's Rebellion in the territory of Northwest . The main conflict at that moment with Native Americans was the consequence of not giving up of the tribes from Northwest of the settlement in the Ohio valley . The first couple of attempts of white people was not successful enough to defeat the tribes , but in 1794 , during the battle...