Settler

American tribe who lived in present day North Carolina.Their name derives from their use of hemp which translates in to “hemp gatherer”. They spoke an Iroquoian language that changed after they continued to migrate. The Tuscarora encountered European settlers in the 17th century and were able to maintain a positive…

Everglades is a very fragile ecosystem,” even the tiniest change can have a large impact” (quote from Past and Present: The Florida Everglades by Toby Haskell ). The Everglades nearly drained when there were the first settlers because they had no regard for natural beauty. The early settlers did not just drain the Everglades they also polluted it; scientific tests showed that the…

For a species to survive and thrive there is a need for expansion and a growth in its population, those who survive become the dominant, shaping the world around it. In the readings “Lies My Teacher Told” Meby James Lowen and “Brutal Appetites from The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California” by Douglas Monroy, the prominent fact throughout each is history is written by the winner. From colonies finding the new world to World War II, those who were declared the loser were cemented into…

In the late 1800’s, Americans expanded their settlements into the western part of their country. This land was traditionally used by American Indian before the Americans claimed it, but since Americans believed in manifest destiny, with the help of the federal government, the ambitious land hungry Americans won several wats against the Indian tribes to claim the land. By losing this war, the Indians were forced to live on government-controlled reservations. This land offered limitless…

Settler colonialism is a term that describes a process in which a colony of foreign people move into a new region with the intent to establish a new community through territorial dominance. For centuries, settler colonialism has helped the United States of America become one of the richest, most powerful nation in the world, however; it’s global dominance could not be defined without remembering the millions of people the United States has killed or displaced. Although there are many historical…

The end of the Plains Indians was caused by many factors, including the rising tension between the Indians and the settlers, decline of the Buffalo population, and the assimilation of the Indian people. The most important factor in the decline of the Plains Indians culture was the assimilation of the Indians. The tension between the Indians and the settlers had been built over many years. The settlement of the white men brought disease and death to the Indians and they were not equipped to…

the settlers and their families. There were many difficulties to overcome, from living in small poorly built houses that are miles away from one other, to the harshness of the winters and the differences in nationalities. There were empty and abandoned tracts in between some of them due to the fact that some of the settlers moved on leaving the land to be claimed by mortgage companies and Eastern spectators. Some of the empty tracts belonged to the state and held school houses for the settlers’…

Region (DBQ) Settlers arrived to the Chesapeake region only to be greeted by unhealthy lands full of despair and labor. New Englanders, on the other hand, were welcomed by fresh air and clean water. As the years passed, the state of these two lands stabilized a bit with each other, but the people’s way of living in these regions did not. New England and the Chesapeake region developed differently because of the types of people who came to each of these places, the goals settlers had in mind…

battles, including the one at the Little Bighorn. In 1877, he was one of the last Indian Chiefs to surrender and was killed. It reminded me of many other unimaginable stories of Indian relocation such as the Trail of Tears, conflicts with the European settlers, and the United States government abuse of the Native Americans such as taking over the tribal land of the Native…

The Chains of Brazil Indigenous people were the first slaves in Brazil. The settlers stopped using indigenous people as slaves due to them spreading disease to their owners. The settlers then decided to utilize Africans as slaves. The first ship of African slaves arrived in Brazil around 1570. Brazil was ultimately the last place to eradicate slavery and it was not completely enforced until the 1850’s. Between 1570 and 1850 four to five million Africans had been shipped overseas to endure the…