Invasion or settlement? This question has been asked and debated by many people over the past century. After studying this question over the past few weeks I agree to a large extent that it was an invasion by the Europeans. They stole the aboriginals land‚ rights and brought over deceases guns and other bad things‚ they killed a large portion of these aboriginals for no explainable reason and they also kidnapped their children in the attempt to extinct the blackness out of the native Australian people
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Settlement of the West With the closing of the frontier and the turn of the 20th century‚ the west side of America was becoming heavily populated and settled in. For America this meant many resources were needed in order to accelerate the expansion of the west. The development of the west brought many problems. How would you transport goods‚ to and from the east? Before any settlements were possible‚ a means of easy transportation was essential. In 1862 the Pacific Railway Act was passed‚
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colonies in Massachusetts and Virginia were being settled and growing. These two states grew up very different from each other in aspects such as their economic development and it’s affect on their politics. In 1607‚ Jamestown in Virginia was the first permanent English settlement. It was in the Chesapeake Bay area. The people abroad the ships had ideas in their heads of digging and mining to find ways of obtaining gold‚ silver‚ and copper. It was their incentive to coming to the New World‚ to
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CHAPTER 17 Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis : western settlement had had an extraordinary impact on U.S. social‚ political‚ and economic development "Buffalo" Bill Cody : a successful show that popularized Wild West shows‚ it consisted of a former Pony Express rider and Indian fighter‚ and the hero of popular dime novels for children. This show romanticized the West and the life of the cowboy. :"Buffalo Bill;" Killed over 4000 buffalo in 18 months while employed by the Kansas
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Although Captain John Smith (Jamestown) and William Bradford (Plymouth) held and wrote about similar positions in similar situations‚ they handled these situations differently. Not only did they come to the New World for different reasons‚ they also had different focuses when they wrote the histories of their respective colonies. Captain John Smith’s only apparent reason for coming over to the New World to settle was for the adventure that was sure to arise. In his early days‚ he did a lot of fighting
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In April 26‚ 1607 the first voyagers of Jamestown land in the America’s. The first settlement conducted an election nearly after they landed in Jamestown. The commander of the 105 colonist had a secret list of seven men that were picked by England to become the colony’s councils. These men that were picked by the England monarchy was wealthy landowners. The colony’s council had a specific job‚ they had to find a leader for these colonies/people. “The Seven council men picked Captain John Smith. “Colonial
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initial settlers of the various thirteen colonies generally left a deep impact on the individual cultures and demographics that would later develop there. Jamestown‚ the first successful settlement‚ was initially settled entirely by men‚ young adventurers and “gentlemen‚” with women only arriving later and in smaller numbers. When the Jamestown colonists and those who followed them began to spread out‚ they retained a male-dominated atmosphere even as small tobacco farms grew into enormous plantations
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The New World was discovered by Spain’s Christopher Columbus in 1492. Many believed that the settlement of the Spanish in the New World was the original settlement. For many years before the arrival of the Europeans‚ various tribes were scattered all throughout the Americas. There was an estimated 10‚000 people living in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492. America was not a virgin wilderness for nearly 12‚000 years. The Spanish were the first to arrive in the New World. They
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David Prince’s book‚ Love and Hate in Jamestown‚ provides excellent explanations on how economic conditions in the new colonies determined investment areas and tripodic relationship between colonists‚ local Indian tribes and the Crown. Prince reports that it took some time before colonists discovered that only through mutually beneficial economic relationships that peace and prosperity would be achieved. In this understanding‚ concurrent sections of the paper provide an analysis on how colonists
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The Planting of English America 1500-1733 The Spanish were at Santa Fe in 1610. The French were at Quebec in 1608. The English were at Jamestown‚ Virginia in 1607. England’s Imperial Stirrings King Henry VIII broke with the Roman Catholic Church in the 1530s‚ launching the English Protestant Reformation‚ and intensifying the rivalry with Catholic Spain. Elizabeth Energizes England In 1580‚ Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe‚ plundering and returning with his ship loaded with
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