The U.S. encountered many problems while trying to expand to the Northwest. One of those problems was the Tecumseh Confederacy. Tecumseh had a negative impact on the westward expansion because he created the Tecumseh Confederacy. Tecumseh made a great impact on the westward expansion because of Tecumseh's Confederacy. According to an article, “Tecumseh's Confederacy was a group of Native Americans in the Old Northwest that began to form in the early 19th century. The confederation grew over several years and came to include several thousand warriors. The United States deemed the confederation a threat, as well as an impediment to expansion, and attacked it in the 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe.” This means that the United states felt threatened by a group of well-trained Native Americans whose leader was Tecumseh, that's purpose was to stop the westward expansion, and were willing to fight, which led to the battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 and was known as Tecumseh’s Confederacy. This proves that Tecumseh had a negative impact on the westward expansion because he had about a thousand soldiers trained to stop it. …show more content…
According to the article, “Tecumseh sided with the British in the War of 1812 (1812–15) in an attempt to halt the expansion of U.S. settlements into the Old Northwest and the dispersal of the native peoples living there.” This means that Tecumseh was so against the westward expansion that he fought alongside the British in the War of 1812 to stop the westward expansion, and spread the amount of Native Americans living there. Tecumseh did everything he possibly could to stop the westward expansion from
In March of 1768, in present-day Ohio, Tecumseh was born. Tecumseh's name means "Panther in the sky." Tecumseh was the fifth born in his family. His mom, Methotaske, was a Creek, and his dad, Puckeshinewa, was a Shawnee. He excelled at the game's Indian boys played. He also organized other boys to go on hunts. When Tecumseh was younger he admired and looked up to the warriors, like his older brother. He also tried to be like the warriors. Later in his life, Tecumseh became a powerful chief to the Native American Tribe, the Shawnee's. He did not want the Americans to take the Native American's land. He accomplished many things in his life.
Tecumseh was known as a warrior. He fought the battle of the Ohio River Valley territory
From the years 1800-1850 the nation was full of battles and prosperity. Territorial expansion was a cause in most of the battles, but also gained prosperity for the nation. There were many impacts on national unity between those time periods, but the main impact was territorial expansion. This is true because of the Louisiana Purchase, the purchase of Oregon territory, and the Mexican War.
In 1845, a fellow named John C. Calhoun coined the term "Manifest Destiny." The term Manifest Destiny was a slogan for westward expansion during the 1840's. In the west there was plenty of land, national security, the spread of democracy, urbanization, but there was also poverty out west. People moved out west in search for a new life such as a new beginning. Moving out west, settlers from the east were taking a risk of a lot of things. The climate was different and there were more cultures that lived out west because of how much land was available.
There was one obstacle to the settlers to expand into the lower South. The obstacle was the Indian tribes such as the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chicasaw, and Seminole nations (Indian Removal 1). According to the white settlers, the nations were in the way of the white’s progress. The whites wanted this land because they needed it to grow cotton, which was making a huge profit (Indian Removal 1). With money on the settler’s minds, the settlers asked the government to gain the Indian Territory. Andrew Jackson agreed with the settlers and pushed for the Indians removal (Indian Removal 1). For instance, in 1814, Andrew Jackson made military forces defeat parts of the Creek nation (Indian Removal 1). The Creek nation lost twenty-two million acres in Georgia and Alabama (Indian Removal 1). When the United States found out that the Seminoles were holding fugitive slaves, the United States decided to take more land as the Seminoles punishment (Indian Removal
The exploration of the West could have had the greatest economic impact on the United States ever. After the west had now been explored, they realized they had a great deal of land that now had to be settled. The land was so vast and so cheap that it was sold for very low prices and sometimes just given away. This caused a huge surge of people to begin flowing west and sparked westward expansion. People began setting up farms and more and more people had opportunities to make a good living.
Westward expansion was the greatest method to achieve the grouping of the natural resources found and use them as needed. To gain access to the western part of the country the white settlers had to pass through the Native Americans. While pushing westward the white culture clashed with the plain indians and their culture. As a result of this clash bloody battles surged and the white settlers were victorious and the government restricted the Native American lands to small portions. The government supported assimilation, which was the plan to unite the Native American culture with the white one.
America was expanding at such a rapid pace that those who were in America before us had no time to anticipate what was happening. This change in lifestyle affected not only Americans but everyone who lived in the land. Changing traditions, the get rich quick idea and other things were the leading causes of westward expansion. But whatever happened to those who were caught in the middle, those who were here before us?
Manifest Destiny gave many Americans a reason for invading and expanding the borders. California and Texas brought the creation of new political parties and the Mexican American War itself, separating American society while also shaping American politics. The Compromise of 1850 was made in order to abate tensions for a few years, allowing American politics to move on for the time. Expansion led to the destruction of our society and brought upon the Civil War, but nothing had a greater change after the Mexican American War like
The period from 1800 to 1865 marked a time of immerse sectionalism in American history. Sectionalism grew more intense due to the added conflict of how to embrace new territories gained during Western Expansion. Westward Expansion began with the Louisiana Purchase made by President Thomas Jefferson. The Louisiana Purchase stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico (Give Me Liberty! 304). The most controversial issue was whether slavery would be allowed in the new territories acquired by the United States. As the philosophy of Manifest Destiny spread among the whole country, the South wanted new slave territories while the North wanted to stop the spread of slavery. According to John O’Sullivan,
Countries require agriculture in order to meet the food demand for their populations. Underlying the Westward Expansion was this idea that urged President Thomas Jefferson to purchase Louisiana from the French. The Westward Expansion was a part of the growth experience of the United States (Vandenbroucke 81). Also, the Westward Expansion did not affect only the United States (Vandenbroucke 81). Most were attracted by the economies opportunities they expected to find there and, in particular, the possibility to acquire land in the western part of the United States (Vandenbroucke 81). Even though the US was experiencing land constraints, it sought to expand westwards to trigger economic growth and accommodate its rising population.
The Battle of Tippecanoe was fought on November 7, 1811 in Battleground, Indiana between a confederacy of Native Americans and American forces. The confederacy of Native Americans was led by Tenskwatawa, often referred to as the Prophet, in lieu of his brother Tecumseh who was absent from the battle. The United States forces were commanded by William Henry Harrison, governor of the Indiana Territory. Tecumseh and his brother, the Prophet, were massing Native American warriors at Prophetstown because they were opposed to cessations of Native American land carried out by the United States government. Governor Harrison marched 1000 troops to Prophetstown as a demonstration of force and in order to eliminate the enemy if necessa...
Tecumseh had risen up as a leader to defend the Shawnee’s way of life. Through decades of violence, he emerged to have a pivotal role in attempting to smooth cultural divisions between tribes and collectively oppose the seizure of their land.
At the time Andrew Jackson was president, there was a fast growing population and a desire for more land. Because of this, expansion was inevitable. To the west, many native Indian tribes were settled. Andrew Jackson spent a good deal of his presidency dealing with the removal of the Indians in western land. Throughout the 1800’s, westward expansion harmed the natives, was an invasion of their land, which led to war and tension between the natives and America, specifically the Cherokee Nation.
The first point he made was how the Westward expansion affected the Plains Indians. The Plains Indian tribes consisted mostly of the Kiowa, Kiowa Apaches, Comanche, Sioux, and Cheyenne. As the white settlers made their way across the country taking land, the Indians pushed back by raiding settlements and killing the occasional settler. More and more white settlers were pouring into the West in search of gold and silver. As the settlers came into the territories, large herds of buffalo were killed, much of the time just for the sport of it. This had an adverse affect on the Indians since they relied on buffalo not only for food, but also for hides and blankets as well as to make teepees. Another factor was the pony herds; the U.S. Army frequently seized herds and a herd of upwards of one thousand was killed just so the Indians would not be able to use them. The soldiers that were on patrol in the West kept pushing the Indians, driving them away from their hunting and fishing grounds.