The Yamasee War: Conflict With Native Americans

The Native American tribes and the United States have a very long and devastating past. The english came from overseas and started taking the Natives land which they didn’t like. The Colonies did barter with some tribes, but fought for territory with most other tribes. The French even became allies with the Natives to try to defeat us in war. We befriended the Cherokee and a couple other dangerous tribes though in defence of their tactics.

He killed the solders and he took most of the men, women, and children with him. Also, I think if he returned to Arizona he can revenge and revenge his people like what he told Mr. Gatewood that he did not learn to do anything except to revenge and always will get revenge. That’s was after a year when his wife and his two girls killed by the Mexican army. He killed more than 50 soldiers in his way to the Mexican border. When Mr. Gatewood came to him at

Regulars and militia focused their attacks on scouting missions of small groups of British soldiers, making it hard to replenish the British with supplies, and this helped drive the British out of the north. After losing in the north, the British moved to the south taking Savannah and then a few years later Charleston, according to Boot, “the biggest British success” (Boot, 2013). With no Continental army left to fight in the south, a group of veteran militia, of the Cherokee War played an instrumental part in beating the British down and destroying their resolve at this time. They employed guerrilla tactics ambushing the enemy and then hiding in the local swamps and forests. The tattered Continental army along with militia used conventional and non-conventional warfare to weaken the strength of the British driving them out of south.

The day of August 10 of 1680, a rebellion that made history took place in what is now known as the four corners of the United States of America. This uprising is known as the Pueblo Revolt. On this day the Pueblo Indians, composed of several tribes like the Hopi, Zuni, Jemez and Taos, upraised against the European colonizers; and without any special training, forced the Spaniards out of their lands obtaining the victory over the Spanish. The Puebloans tolerated the Spanish who invaded their land and oppressed their people for almost more than eight decades. But what oppressions, distresses and circumstances lead to this revolt?

However, on 29th November that year, after a night of heavy drinking, Chivington ordered the massacre of the Native Indians. The massacre majorly led to the deaths of children and women and since then it has been referred to as the Sand Creek

On his second trip he brought dogs to hunt down and rip the arms and legs off the Native Americans who tried to escape. Along with this he conquered their land and spread disease killing around ninety percent of the Native American population. The Spanish wanted to convert the Native Americans so they forced Christianity upon the Native Americans.

Since the Alamo was also centrally located, it became a crossroads for siege and battle. When the Commander of the Alamo, William B. Travis realized that Santa Anna and his Mexican troops had surprised them at the Alamo, he decided to write a letter asking for help from men in Texas communities. Having not seen any help arrive for several days, he finally on day 8 got 32 more volunteers to help them which brought their number to almost 200 volunteer defenders. Also fighting for their territory was Davy Crockett a congressman from Tennessee and frontiersman and

President Jackson did this because the U.S. was desperate for land. He treated the Cherokee very unfairly to make him happy. Jackson also lied to them. In America History of our Nation, it said “They would be given shelter and more. He lied to them and gave them nothing.

It all began on september 15,1864 in Atlanta. After leaving the decimated city of Atlanta on November 16, Sherman led his troops on a destructive campaign which they had taken to port city of Savannah on December 21. It is known for its destruction and sorrow that it caused to the South. There were very few towns that sherman did not burn down because they lied and said that they were making guns and weapons for his fellow troops they went and destroyed about 80 to 90 percent of the south’s

The revolt spread, but it was finally stopped by federal troops. In the 1830’s-1840’s serious slave uprisings came about in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and

More native fought back such as the seminole tribe fought against the act and it was called the Seminole Wars. there were three separate “wars”. It started as natives responding to getting pushed off their land. In the end, white started to provoke violence so they could be justified in killing natives.

Brown was attempted by the condition of Virginia for injustice and murder, and discovered liable on November 2.The 59-year-old abolitionist went to the scaffold on December 2, 1859. Before brown was about to be executed he gave a guard a piece of paper that said “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with

King Philips War created immense fear and hatred towards Native Americans and caused rebellions throughout the English colonies, the greatest rebellion being Bacons Rebellion. Ironically, the rebellion began with a pig. A group of Doug Indians took some pigs as payment for a debt that planter Thomas Matthew owed them. Due to the act, Matthew gathered a group of family members and neighbors to track down the Doug Indians, capture them, and beat most of them to death. In retaliation, the surviving Indians attacked Matthews’s plantation and killed one of his indentured servants.

They expected to fight the warriors again at Ft. Mystic but instead found women, children, and old men. They did not take mercy on them and they burnt their wigwams, and massacred the ones trying to escape. It is estimated they killed hundreds of people. The Puritans believed they could restore the colonists’ faith by killing the Indians who they considered were working for the devil.

The south was so wrapped up in there ego that they thought that if they withheld their cotton from England and France that would make them want to help them win the war. According to the article: Dethroning King Cotton: The Failed Diplomacy of the Confederacy, France and England went to India and Egypt to get there cotton. The South also forgot that England was against slavery.