Native American gambling enterprises

missioned Cartier to explore land of america to search for gold, spices, and the route to northeast Asia. Jacques Cartier first expedition sailed with two ships to the St. Lawrence river sea way. He coasted around Newfoundland. Cartier encountered a native american village. He had kidnapped two young Indians of the chef and brought them back to France.…

up all of its land east of the Mississippi River. The plan was for the Native Americans to migrate west to an area that today is known as Oklahoma. The Indians negotiated with the government for reimbursement of their ancestor’s hard work and investments.The government would give them $5 million for all of their land east of the Mississippi River, along with $500,000 to help with transportation west and to compensate the native landowners. The speculators who would purchase their property would…

Thomas Jefferson Opinion Paper As one of the founding fathers of this country, Thomas Jefferson is quite well-known by many Americans old and young, but not many know him quite well. He moved this country forward in so many ways, yet there are many compelling arguments today that he was a hypocrite and does not deserve the overall satisfactory reputation his name carries today. However, the fact that he was President and served our country cannot be changed. The effects he had and actions he…

killed each other just to trade with the natives. They traded goods like iron tools muskets and ammo and many other things to help the natives The wording on the monument of Fort Rouille Description: Fort Rouille was an armed French trading post that was made for about ten soldiers who slept in the barracks. There were also a few traders, also civilians lived outside of the fort. Fort Rouille is more commonly known…

In “My People the Sioux” written by Luther Standing Bear, he documents significant history from a Native American lifestyle assimilating to the white race. Standing Bear writes an autobiography in order “to write accurately about the struggles and disappointments of the Indian (preface).” Moreover, Richard Ellis brings up controversies about the “factual errors” that Standing Bear might have said in his own autobiography. Ellis is referring to the support that is achieved through “written…

NC. He died on March 21, 1800 at Knoxville, Tennessee. His parents were Jacob Blount Sr. and Barbara Gray Blount, he had two sibling’s name, Willie Blount and Thomas Blount. He also worked in the family business and later on he joined in on the American Revolution as the paymaster of the third regiment. “After winning are independent William got married to Mary Grainier and the had six childrens and out of those six children William and Mary had only one went on and was outstanding in Tennessee…

spurred when the agricultural revolution began. Some geographic locations possessed greater soil fertility as well as animals that are easier to domesticate and native plants that…

Sacagawea Sacagawea, Sacajawea, or Sakakawa was her name. She was a major contribution in one of America’s famous expeditions, and the only women of 33 who were in the group. “Corps of Discovery,” is what many called the westward expedition of the United States. Sacagawea now symbolizes U.S culture and female strength. Daughter of a Shoshone chief, Sacagawea was born in 1788 in Lemhi County, Idaho. Unfortunately most of her early years remains a mystery. At the young age of twelve she was…

create a American colony in the Tejas province of Mexico. Stephen Austin was born in south western Virginia and when he was five his family moved to Missouri. He attended schooling at Yale college for four year’s he later returned to Missouri where he became a storekeeper, manager of the family lead mining company, and a failed bank director. In 1820 the governor of Arkansas appointed him as a circuit judge. Stephen Austin's father Moses Austin took steps towards establishing an American colony…

On May 10, 1869, the American transcontinental railroad was fully opened to the public. The completion of this enormous engineering project played a significant role in the rapid expansion westward into the United States. Following the Civil War (1861-1865), the west evolved from a disconnected open space to a place where towns and cities would soon be constructed along the rail lines of the transcontinental railroad. Chinese laborers had a significant impact on the transcontinental railroad…