started opposing Tejanos&conflict‚prejudice-frontier of exclusion‚ anti-Mexican-few remembered Tejanos helped in Texas independence. Exploring the West: 1.1840‚occupied all land east of Miss.R.&statehoods(except FL&WI)-majority lived w.-Market revol. Transportation&commerce induced expansion-source of national pride that seek for further expansion-established several frontiers-A. Took several century to understand the geography. The Fur Trade: 1. Flourished between 1670-1840s‚ important spur to the exploration
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a French noble appointed by the king of France to set up trading posts in Canada. Champlain was given control of the Fur trade in exchange for establishing a French colony. Champlain‚ De Monts and approximately 60 settlers set up their first trading post called “port Royal” in 1605. Unfortunately Port Royal was not a great success‚ for that reason De Monts lost control of the Fur trade. Despite Champlain’s’ luck he was convinced that Canada was profitable. In 1608 he led an expedition arriving in
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The Iroquois attacked and raided other Indian Nations allied with the French in present-day Ohio‚ Indiana‚ Michigan‚ and Ontario to gain access to their fur-bearing lands. As a result‚ many of these Indian Nations‚ including the Sauk‚ Fox‚ Potawatomi‚ Mascouten‚ Kickapoo‚ Ottawa‚ Miami and Huron‚ fled for more remote areas of the west. The Sioux Nations blocked travel of these Nations across the Mississippi
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received at the World ’s Fair in Chicago of 1893‚ after his death in 1932‚ a large cascade of criticism was unleashed arguing that Turner had misrepresented some dynamic concepts like the nature of the frontier‚ frontier allures‚ democracy‚ and the fur trade. Frederick Jackson Turner offered his essay as an analysis of the past and a warning about the future so the generations of his time period could find comfort knowing that the closing of the frontier was not an end to American history but rather
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expansion on the Subarctic‚ with western Europeans advancing from the east and Russians and Americans from the West‚ changed the tempo and nature of indigenous warfare by creating new and intensified opportunities for young males to compete. The developing fur trade changed the demographics‚ trade networks‚ access to the sources of new goods‚ and the competitive structure among all subarctic societies. Western goods‚ as critical material resources‚ have been argued as being the objects over which warfare
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beavers strictly for practicality before Europeans arrived‚ they traded excessive amounts of beaver pelts to Euro Americans in the fur trade. Due to a rapidly declining population from introduced diseases and the desire of foreign manufactured goods‚ such as addictive alcohol and cooking utensils‚ Native Americans were forced by the market to act as middlemen in the fur trade.3 This shift in perspective is notable because it exemplifies the ability of the market to commodify a natural resource and
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were fur. The Native Americans would hunt a plentiful amount of animals. These would include: beaver‚ buffalo‚ wolf‚ deer‚ etc. The beaver fur was to be considered the most valuable in trading. A specific reason the Native Americans that belonged to the Dakota Tribe hunted these animals‚ was because they were all around at the time. If they saw buffalo‚ they knew there were more near since they move in herds of as many as 50 or more. The trading could happen anywhere. As an exchange of the fur‚ the
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switched back to their old ancestral gods. Then they rebelled and tore down all the Christian churches with the Popé. One of France’s goals in settling in the United States was to get fur for Europe‚ since it was in great demand. This was pretty successful since the French were able to trade with the Indians for fur. The French also wanted to convert the Indians to Jesuit in a calmer manner‚ but the Indians became skeptical of the religion when their prayers didn’t save them from the diseases. The
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The Fur Trade: Year 1687: Alain Hello‚ I am here to share my story with my friend. Our names are Alain and Adonis. Alain is French and Adonis is aboriginal. I will first tell the story of my friend Alain. It all started when Alain’s Great-grandfather Jacques Cartier had set off on a sailboat in search of riches. He landed on the western coast of Canada and he made New France. He also told me that Cartier returned to France and died in 1557. Then in 1660 Alain’s Father came along and wanted to go
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basically free labor‚ which was very beneficial since labor was scarce and expensive. At this time‚ the fur trade also became important. The French people were really focusing on the fur trade‚ which meant working with the Native Americans. It was the Native Americans job to go and hunt the animals for the French people. The fur did not only keep them warm‚ it also became very fashionable to wear fur. As a “payment” to the Indians for helping them to hunt the animals they got weapons‚ corn‚ squash and
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