Northwest Territories

The Role of the Hudson Bay Company: 1. What was the Hudson Bay Company? When was it created? The iconic, Hudson’s Bay Company was a North American operation, created from the demand for the popular 17th century, beaver fur felt hats. King Charles II financially backed French traders, Medard Chouart des Groseilliers and Pierre-Esprit Radisson’s idea, of creating a trading company in 1670 , around the Hudson Bay, which would give them easier access to the financially growing products of the new…

After the War of 1812, British forces, particularly navy forces, stopped interfering with Americans and their shipping. The United States was now able to grow as a new, independent, country. “After the War of 1812 revealed itself in continuing efforts to expand the nation’s boundaries” (Thompson, Week 9). “Andrew Jackson was the first president from a western state” (Shi & Tindall, 319). Andrew Jackson despised the British and blamed them foe the deaths of his mother and brother. He was a…

than hurt those involved with territorial expansion, the relocation of inhabitants, and the prosperity of the nation. The idea that America could expand to the Pacific was an impossibility before 1800. However, after the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803, and the expeditions to the Pacific by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark proved that an empire was in the grasp of America. However, the British and the natives still occupied the region west of the Ohio River. Great…

The Western Roman Empire fell due to the Germanic tribes or barbarians constantly invading the borders of the empire. The invasions by the barbarians started in the Huns who pushed the Goths from their lands northwest of the Black Sea to the border of the Roman Empire at the western end of the Danube River. The 200,000 Goths emitted a lot of pressure on the emperor causing him to allow one Gothic tribe to cross the Danube River and live inside the border of the empire. Now in the empire the…

brothers and four sisters he was clearly raised well by his parents and had a good education as showed in the war later in his life. George became a commander when he came up with a plan to protect the settlers by gaining more land in the Northwest Territory. He asked for Virginia’s support and the Governor Patrick Henry granted him commander of the mission. He and an estimated one hundred, seventy five men marched into Kaskaskia, present day Illinois, and took the fort on July 4th, 1778.…

Before the Nez Perce Indians were created it was said that animals inhabited the world. Animals had qualities that made them act like humans. The main character in the Nez Perce story was a Coyote. “A trickster and transformer” The story is. “One day Coyote learned that all the animals were being devoured by a fearsome monster who dwelled near present-day Kamiah on the Clearwater River. Tricking the monster into swallowing him, Coyote started a fire inside the monster’s belly and slew him by…

were not the only ones interested in this territory. The Russians, British, and Spanish had also made claims to this territory. The dispute was put at the focal point for American politics as the situation escalated to the point of many Americans…

region around Newfoundland and Florida to discover a track to the Pacific Ocean. Jacques Cartier boarded upon one of three journeys to explore the St. Lawrence River and the coast of Newfoundland In 1534. Cartier was also responsible for finding a northwest route linking between the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean. Numerous colonies were created by the French in America in places such as Parris Island, S.C., Saint Croix Island, Maine, Fort St. Louis, Texas and what is now Jacksonville, Fla. The forts…

Beginning on the 31st of August, 1803, Lewis and Clark made their way up the Missouri River. After President Jefferson’s purchase of the Louisiana Territory, he appointed William and Meriwether to lead an expedition to explore the Missouri River. Through this expedition, they were to find a detour to the Pacific Ocean, by the Columbia River. Lewis and Clark, both faced difficult obstacles, saw land that was beautifully created by God himself, and discovered new people and cultures.…

Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, the United States developed several laws designed to guarantee slave subordination and white supremacy through fear, limitation, and degradation. White Americans did not want to chance that slaves would become educated or have the opportunity to unite and initiate a revolt, as the American revolutionaries had just demonstrated against their own British master with success. Slave codes legally degraded slaves and demonstrated white superiority on…