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…eventually lead to war with Mexico. Anti-expansionists argued that Indian treaties would be broken and that this would lead to a rise in Indian attacks in the West. At first, there were abolitionists who supported expansion because they believed that they could…

…In my family, keeping the Native American blood line strong has always been somewhat important, especially to my grandfather. He is a hundred percent Cherokee Indian and he looks just like the guy on the back of the buffalo nickel. He hoped for me…

…circumstances. One, that there was no law of slavery at all in the beginning, and two, that discrimination against the Negro antedated the legal status of slavery (Degler 66-8). The way the English treated another dark skinned, non-Christian people (the Indians…

…“Ancient Mexico, an overview,” by Jaime Litvak King is a book about the history about Mexico. She begins the book with the very beginnings of Mexican civilization and through all the hardships the Indians had to endure with the invasion of Spanish…

…especially grateful and close to the French for that reason; the less French that came to take land, the more for the Indians. Unlike the British who only hugged the coastline, the French went deep into the New World and made deep ties with the Indians, which led…

…of states on the East coast of a great piece of land. William Clark was indeed important, but William Clark could not be considered a great man. William Clark made friends with many Indian tribes, but he also cheated them. William Clark cheated many Indian…

…by the president, Ulysses Grant. Soon though, gold was found in mountains around and white settlers flocked to the valley and “stole the Indians’ horses, and stockmen stole their cattle, branding them so the Indians’ could not claim them back,” (318). In the words…

…. Long before African Americans were made slaves in the Americas, they still faced many forms of discrimination. The white race had a feeling of superiority over blacks and Indians because the two groups had very different cultures than what the whites were…

…revolution (1600-1740), the value any human dignity was low for the poor, non European and women that is. Indenture servants, Indian slaves, and African slaves were virtually all at the lowest level. At first the Indian slaves, African slaves, and indentured…

…of the people. Disease spreads quickly in the country with little medicine and few hospitals available. Kathy lives through the diphtheria epidemic only to watch the rest of the village die away. Most of the Indians die, family by family, from this deadly disease…