These boundary issues and fears would help the supporters, who wanted to expand the United States borders, to push for acquiring new territories in North America. ... The Lewis and Clark expedition, along with the help of Sacajawea and her husband Toussaint Charbonneau, explored much of this Louisiana territory. ... In 1818, Andrew Jackson went into Spanish controlled Florida and took over Pensacola under the guise that it was to protect American's from Seminole attacks, and not for land acquisition, however, in 1819 Spain would give Florida to America with the Adams-Onis Treaty. The Uni...

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They could direct commerce in ways that helped them also compel Africans to wage wars that might otherwise not have been waged. ... The belief was strong among the first missionaries [who] wanted to protect the new believers at any cost from contact with the, in their eyes, godless Spanish colonists." ... After the discovery of Americas, The emperor of Spain, King Charles V declared Indians as subjects of Spain due the belief that they were innocent children of God. ...

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It's good to note that, Christopher Columbus, a Portuguese citizen approached the King of Spain and asked for a ship to sail around the world, and find the shortest route between Europe and India. ... His gross miscalculation led to him landing on the Americas, and since he did not want to be found wanting over his inadequacy of sailing from Europe to India, he decided to rename the Native Americans as, 'American Indians' and write his letters back to the Kingdom of Spain as to have found 'the Indians'. ... This makes them heavily dependent on the rest of the count...

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These Spanish settlers believed that they had discovered America, after all, despite thousands of years of Indian inhabitance on the same land. ... In many societies, hunters observed rituals that helped them maintain respectful relationships with the animals they hunted. ... At the same time, the Iroquois was mobilizing for a massive counterattack on the Huron, with the help of the Dutch. ... The settlers were desperate for assistance, and found the Powhatan Confederacy readily available to help. ...

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This paper focuses on the oppression of American Indians in the U.S. during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. From the arrival of European explorers into the, "New World," Native American tribes were brutally killed and forced out of their own land. White settlers considered the...

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After the war, filibustering, another tactic of U.S. territorial expansion, was also driven against Spanish Florida, Mexican Texas, Canada, and parts of the Caribbean Islands. ... This empowerment of women's rights helped trigger the first movements in the 1840s. ...

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