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In the early 1400’s ,the Europeans began to have control over the world by setting colonies in the Americas, along the coast of Africa, and parts of southeast Asia. This is referred to as the Age of Exploration . This Age was  caused by advances in technology and it was motivated by the desire for glory, religion , and economic factors. The accomplishments of the European Age of Exploration were that ideas and goods were being exchanged, wealth allowed them better ships and navigation tools, and they had the chance to claim land and territories. These factors contributed in bringing a European Golden Age.

*The Age of Exploration saw searches of wealth, new lands, and conversion of christianity. Europeans ed the first globe trading empires and would they would make trips to the western hemisphere.

The Americans expansion past the Mississippi Valley and the Appalachian Mountains resulted in the removal of Indians. From previous paragraphs, in 1763 Americans couldn’t settle land beyond a certain line at the Appalachian Mountains. However, after defeating England, the Americans assumed that the Indian land was theirs, only to discover that “their land” was inhabited. The Indians who were not needed, but rather an obstacle was dealt with by extreme force, thus clearing the land for whites. This land was cleared for cotton in the South and grain in the North, for expansion, immigration, canals, railroads, new cities, and the building of a huge continental empire clear across to the Pacific Ocean. President Jackson’s 1814 treaty granted Indians

Because of the desire for land and the discovery of gold in Georgia, there was a push in doing what was necessary to remove Indians from their land (Native History Association). This was the time of Manifest Destiny, where white moved all over the country in hopes to spread their culture and customs. This involved them moving onto Indian land (Peppas 2013, 14). Even though gold was found on Cherokee land, the Cherokee could not touch it because the government did not want the Cherokee to have access to the gold. People from all over came to their land to mine the gold (Peppas 2013, 18).

The Indian Removal was a policy of the government of the United States in the 19th century whose objective was to move the native American tribes that lived in the east of the Mississippi River to lands west of the river. Due to the rapid increase of the population of the country, the U.S. government urged the Indian tribes to sell their land in exchange for a new Indian territory outside the borders of the United then existing. This process was accelerated with the adoption of the Law of Forced Relocation of the Indians in 1830, which provided funds to the President Andrew Jackson to carry out land exchange treaties.With the election of President Andrew Jackson in 1829, the only large concentrations of indigenous tribes that remained on the

Between the 1450-1750, European states began to embark on a series of global explorations that prompted a new chapter in world history. It was known as the Age of Discovery, or the Age of Exploration, this period spanned the fifteenth through the early seventeenth century, during which time European expansion to places such as the Americas, Africa, and Asia. Competition between European empires, such as Spain and England, fueled the evolution and advancement of overseas exploration and European empires during this period expanded greatly.

Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, came to power with one important promise to the American people: the removal of Indian tribes “to make room for the whites”. This Indian Removal, conducted in the 1830s, affected all Indian tribes, and they responded in various ways. Some were ready to move to the west and follow orders, tired of resisting the whites and knowing that there was no other way out. However, several tribes stood on the land of their ancestors and fought to remain where they were. One example of the latter was the focus of study for chapter ten—the Cherokee nation. The Cherokee resisted movement to the west through various treaties and pleas, but were eventually moved out due to military force and strong commands from the president.

Slaves were cheap and there were many of them to go around. Land owners hired many slaves to plant on their plantations, and then harvest for a profit in turn, the more slaves, the more planted, equaling a bigger profit. The more profit earned, the more slaves bought that brought cash to buy the more land. This was a cycle that continued for a plethora of years. While it was cruel and brutal, it was effective in allowing the land owners to spend minimal money and earn profits for a lifetime. Even abolitionists, those who were strongly against slavery, located mostly in the north, never denied the fact that slaves were profiting the slave owners. Slavery began in the new world back in 1619 lasted well into the 1800s, if the slave owners were not benefiting those centuries, they would not have craved more and more slaves to work on their land.

American Indians: People indigenous to the United States of America before it was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 and conquered by the Europeans. During the Pre-Columbian era, The American Indians lived and prospered in peace on this land for thousands of years and formed several tribes, however, after the discovery of the new world by the Europeans, they were forced to leave their land. In response to this, many American Indians rebelled against the Europeans causing wars to outbreak among the two sides. Many tribes relocated to the west after the europeans colonized on their land.

Slavery in the American colonies had greatly shaped the nation as we know it to be today. After the discovery of the New World, Spanish conquerors intended to enslave Native Americans, but punishment, overwork, and diseases such as small pox and malaria decreased their population rapidly. The only solution was to kidnap African Americans from their homeland and transport them on ships under poor, unsanitary conditions, many of which died of yellow fever, dysentery, or suicide. Upon arrival, they were fed and oiled to make them more physically attractive so they can be purchased by wealthy landowners who forced them into labor. Here, plantation owners assigned task for each individual slave, working long hours in the field harvesting crops. At first, these African Americans held the status of indentured servitude, but as the demand for labor grew increasingly, treatment became much harsher. Additionally, African Americans were outnumbering plantation owners, and as a result, they were stripped of their freedom in fear of revolts. Although slaves have little to no rights, they played an important role in developing the economy despite experiencing racial discrimination.

Eventually there was less land to give away and it became impractical for plantation owners to buy indentured servants. This is what shifted the labor force to African slaves. The slaves are not under a contract like the indentured servants. They worked for the plantation owner for life and then their children worked for life. Punishment for the slaves are physical violence such as whipping, starving, and

Instantly the Europeans got in on the slave trade boosting their economies. As the slaves began coming to the New World their was a stigma around Africans marking them as uncivilized, therefore it was easy for everyone to mistreat them, they were not equal. Lesser people meant they could be taken advantage of as slaves and deepen a cultural disdain for one another. Politicians worked fervently to make sure no matter what slaves stayed sub class citizens while laws and social standards kept whites and blacks as far apart on the totem pole of life as possible. Slavery worked in a way they they were taken and stripped of all rights and dignity, crammed into cramped rotten shipps where they were beaten and large portions of the crew and cargo died, then to finish off their life they were forced to work like machines day in and out over and over doing whatever they were told. Not all parts of the country developed this as deeply, such as the North slavery was quite rare because of the cold winters. In Northern places the foundation of slavery is limited so the prejudices against blacks never fed off of the slavery. The south has the exact opposite it has slavery to the extreme so prejudice and slavery fed off of one another mounting to the point of barely considering Africans part of the population, they were property. Slavery on this grand of a scale from the harvest of slaves, to their passing of servitude threw birth had never been seen before by

The European explorations have been hearing a lot about all the natural resources that the New World can offer to them. They wanted to travel and find the Far East for the gold, silk, spices, and possible crops that they may be able to bring back to Europe. They believed that the New World would be able to offer all of the natural resources that they may need in order to survive in Europe. They were also very fond of gold and all the other

Western Imperialism was a period when the western powers of the world, Europe and the United States, decided to expand their territories by colonizing Asian countries. In Europe the Renaissance encouraged the Europeans to trade with other countries. The Europeans were motivated by trade and culture, but were mostly motivated by God, glory, and gold. They also wanted to cease the spread of Islam across Asia by educating the locals about the Christian faith. The first European country that started the “Age of Exploration” was Portugal.

Slavery essentially began to provide cheap agricultural labor. Attempts to enslave Indians were made however were idle because the number of Indian slaves was never sufficient and if they were enslaved, they were able to escape easily. Indentured servants were then brought from Europe, however, this form of slavery did not last long because they were too expensive and their labor was limited. This is when chattel slavery became introduced, where black slaves were thought of as property and were sold, traded or inherited. This system was beneficial and profitable to the US economy and therefore was kept. A caste system came into effect with blacks and people of color at the very bottom. Along the end of the Civil War (1861-1865) came the