Thursday, September 16, 2010

There Goes the Neighborhood

When people first started coming to America from all of the other parts of the world there was a lot of conflict.  Most of it was between the new settlers and the Native Americans who were there before the settlers.  The Native Americans believed that land and earth could not be owned.  They shared the land with each other and did not waste the resources that the earth provided for them.  The new settlers that came to North America did not believe that because where they came from land was bought and property was built on it.  When the colonists and settlers first came to the new land we now call America relations between Native Americans and themselves were generally peaceful.  But as the years wore on and the new white people wanted to expand westward through Native American territories, conflicts between the two groups broke out.  The new colonists basically kicked them out so that they could build their new homes and places of work.  They could do this because they had guns which the Native Americans were lacking.  They pushed them to the west until there was no more room.  Violence between these two groups did not end just after the Revolutionary War it kept going on.  One particular event that many people have heard about was The Trail Of Tears.  Andrew Jackson forced many Native American tribes to move west.  Many tribes were relocated and had to walk the trail of tears were many died.  So when new people come around it could be good or it could be bad.  You just gotta hope for the best.

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