American West
American West
The “American West” is not what many people think of when they hear those words. People think of it as cowboys and Indians fighting on the Great Plains and in the canyons or the travel across rugged terrain traveling as fast as they could for the gold rush. In all honesty the west started as soon as the Americas began to be colonized and many historians say it begins at the Proclamation Line of 1763. They had many struggles with the Native Americans, the French trying to take their land by way of war, and Great Britain, the motherland, taxing them harshly for war debt but the American colonists eventually made their way to what is today commonly called the West. The Albany Plan of Union, which was drafted by Benjamin Franklin and the governor of Massachusetts Thomas Hutchinson, was a proposal to unite the thirteen colonies in preparation of a war with France. The proposal was drafted during a meeting with the native leaders, colonial officials, and representatives from the seven British colonies. This meeting was called the Albany Congress because they all met in Albany in the spring of 1754. The meeting had two focal points. The first was to ally with the Iroquois. Before this the Iroquois had a better relationship with the French. This was until the 1740s. During Albany Congress the Iroquois Indians were bribed with supplies and weapons to ally with the colonies. The other point of this meeting was the Albany Plan of Union. It called for a new government, a person who had powers of the relationships with the natives, and a grand council was also made. The plan was approved unanimously by every delegate at the Albany Congress but when it was presented to the colonists it never passed. The colonists all would rather have the wars paid for by the motherland. The Albany Congress and Albany Plan of Union could be seen as a prelude to American Revolutionary thinking and action because the Americans wanted to separate themselves to from the
The “American West” is not what many people think of when they hear those words. People think of it as cowboys and Indians fighting on the Great Plains and in the canyons or the travel across rugged terrain traveling as fast as they could for the gold rush. In all honesty the west started as soon as the Americas began to be colonized and many historians say it begins at the Proclamation Line of 1763. They had many struggles with the Native Americans, the French trying to take their land by way of war, and Great Britain, the motherland, taxing them harshly for war debt but the American colonists eventually made their way to what is today commonly called the West. The Albany Plan of Union, which was drafted by Benjamin Franklin and the governor of Massachusetts Thomas Hutchinson, was a proposal to unite the thirteen colonies in preparation of a war with France. The proposal was drafted during a meeting with the native leaders, colonial officials, and representatives from the seven British colonies. This meeting was called the Albany Congress because they all met in Albany in the spring of 1754. The meeting had two focal points. The first was to ally with the Iroquois. Before this the Iroquois had a better relationship with the French. This was until the 1740s. During Albany Congress the Iroquois Indians were bribed with supplies and weapons to ally with the colonies. The other point of this meeting was the Albany Plan of Union. It called for a new government, a person who had powers of the relationships with the natives, and a grand council was also made. The plan was approved unanimously by every delegate at the Albany Congress but when it was presented to the colonists it never passed. The colonists all would rather have the wars paid for by the motherland. The Albany Congress and Albany Plan of Union could be seen as a prelude to American Revolutionary thinking and action because the Americans wanted to separate themselves to from the
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