Positive/Negative Experiences on the Development of the West
Positive and Negative Experiences on the Development of the West
As the development of the west was put into progress, there were plenty of the positive and negative aspects that were come across just like any sort of development would have. The Native Americans played the biggest role in the experiences of western development, with both being positive and negative. The Native Americans caused many unwanted battles as well as much stress and resistance with the whites. On the other hand, they opened the eyes to the whites with some of their beliefs as well as how to survive. The farmers also played an important role in the development. As they provided food and some livestock for some sorts of people, they also had much more demand for land as conditions grew worse and the population rose. Also with land, the miners caused much more of the issues with the whites besides the Native Americans. They caused death with unsuspected problems in the mines as well as diseases and being intoxicated with fumes. However, they were the men who had brought the majority of gold and other wanted minerals to any who could afford them. As everyone from different backgrounds came together with one goal, they soon found that just settling to find gold would not be even as close to what they had hoped it could be with uncooperative Native Americans, demanding farmers, and the deaths and injuries of miners.
The Native Americans were originally from all over the North American continent. The Native Americans of the west, mainly the Sioux, were a very loyal and traditional people. As the new settlers kept moving in consecutively, the Natives began to have more issues with them. At first, they were supportive of their want to discover more gold and they agreed to help them if their land was respected. However, the settlers had gone too far with the Native’s land and demanded they took it and made it into new towns for the miners (Bushong). The Native American’s were fed up with being
As the development of the west was put into progress, there were plenty of the positive and negative aspects that were come across just like any sort of development would have. The Native Americans played the biggest role in the experiences of western development, with both being positive and negative. The Native Americans caused many unwanted battles as well as much stress and resistance with the whites. On the other hand, they opened the eyes to the whites with some of their beliefs as well as how to survive. The farmers also played an important role in the development. As they provided food and some livestock for some sorts of people, they also had much more demand for land as conditions grew worse and the population rose. Also with land, the miners caused much more of the issues with the whites besides the Native Americans. They caused death with unsuspected problems in the mines as well as diseases and being intoxicated with fumes. However, they were the men who had brought the majority of gold and other wanted minerals to any who could afford them. As everyone from different backgrounds came together with one goal, they soon found that just settling to find gold would not be even as close to what they had hoped it could be with uncooperative Native Americans, demanding farmers, and the deaths and injuries of miners.
The Native Americans were originally from all over the North American continent. The Native Americans of the west, mainly the Sioux, were a very loyal and traditional people. As the new settlers kept moving in consecutively, the Natives began to have more issues with them. At first, they were supportive of their want to discover more gold and they agreed to help them if their land was respected. However, the settlers had gone too far with the Native’s land and demanded they took it and made it into new towns for the miners (Bushong). The Native American’s were fed up with being
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