Native Americans - Years of Growth - First encounters

11 important questions on Native Americans - Years of Growth - First encounters

What was America's relationship with Spain?

Early 1500s, first Spanish colonists arrived in Florida and California. Brought Christian missionaries and made the NA work their fields and mines. Always had bitter relations.

What was America's relationship with the French and the Dutch?

Came to trade.

What was the Native American's relationship with the Puritans?

Came to farm and needed land. Was shared by NA, who helped them. After short period of peace it turned violent, had vastly different value systems. Forgave the NA first because ‘they didn’t know better’ but showed no intention of changing. Stopped forgiving when they didn’t need them to survive in the New World.
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What was the Puritans their reason for violence to the Native American's?

Saw them as inferior creatures, presented them as savages who threatened Puritan settlements. NA’s didn’t like the towns, roads, etc, on land to be shared by all.

What does Five Nations mean?

Tribe formed by Iroquois. Run by council of 50 representatives of each tribe. Had no say in how the free and equal tribes ran their day-to-day affairs. Strong power in 16/1700s.

What does the Five Nations have to do with the French and Indian War?

Five Nations sided with British, 1754-1763.

Explain the Law of 1787 called the Northwest Ordinance:

This law said that the NA's lands and property shall never be taken from them without their consent; and in their property, rights and liberty they shall never be invated or disturbed.

Explain the ideas of President James Munroe in 1817:

Felt NA’s should leave their ways and become civilised. Wanted to move them west, could either adapt or stay as they were. That meant that the Law of Northwest Ordinance didn't apply anymore.

What happend in the Supreme Court in 1823?

The SC ruled that NA’s could occupy lands but not hold title to them.

Explain the Indian Removal act:

In 1830, president Andrew Jackson past a act that all the  NA’s east of the Mississippi River would be moved into the “Indian Territory”. This place was unsuitable for white farmers.

What does the act of Northwest Ordinance, 1787 mean?

This was a act of the government that  gave Congress the right to split the Northwest Territory into three to five smaller territories and created a way to govern them.The importance of the plan was that it made sure that the original 13 states were not able to control for their own benefit lands that were settled later.

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