Expansion Of The Western Frontier Analysis

The expansion of the western frontier occurred in the period between 1777 and 1850. During the expansion of the western frontier the Native Americans were affected highly throughout the entire process. The Americans did not want to show sympathy on what was believed to help them improve their expansion in social, political, cultural, and economically. The same goes on in today’s society of Chicago, Illinois. Nobody thinks to compare our modern day society to society in the late 1700’s through mid 1800’s. Chicago citizens are not showing sympathy for one another with their ideas on how to expand their personal life in social, political, cultural, and economical. During the expansion of the western frontier, many treaties and presidents were …show more content…
They fight for the money, the name and how much land they feel they should have, once the gangs and the school kids are done arguing about who is more known with more money and has the most blocks, it turns to ethnicity. Some might argue that a certain culture needs to fill the blocks of the streets they felt they earned by killing or fighting, “marking the territory”. After the ethnicity argues who should be where and the culture should be spread throughout their blocks the government comes in and starts to take over their blocks. Now you have three groups fighting over who has what, what belongs to who, and who is better than who. Seeing people die for a block and forced into a category is not too much different in how they were expanding west. Chicago expands with in itself everyday. Some neighborhoods get bigger others get smaller, even abandoned. Would the treaties they have back then help now? How about the proclamation? Would that work in modern day how it did during the western expansion? For the kids to not be forced into selling drugs and learning about gangs (missionaries in another form) enslaving them to the streets. Working at little jobs and small town shops under business of cultures and families, they pay under the table for less money almost enslaving them with no pay. Even for having to be forced into another culture when you yourself know you are a african and grew up around latinas or latinos even an asian. Does that make it okay for you to be forced to convert because of the area you are in? Think about it and how you feel, who is going to win this time? Just because Americans won in the western expansion does not mean we will win fighting against our