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The Appalachian Mountains provided a natural barrier to the western expansion of the English Colonies in America, or so some thought.
The Iroquois sided with the British for the French and Indian War. The British paid the Iroquois to kill Americans that crossed over the Appalachian Mountains. The Algonquin Indians sided with the French. The Algonquin also had fought against Americans in the colonies. The British had a superior army and the Iroquois were a more united group of native Americans
When the Revolutionary War began, Bernardo de Galvez was the governor of Louisiana, a Spanish colony at the time. His contribution to American success was preventing the British from utilizing the Mississippi River.
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War of 1812 wasn't the first fight against settlers, for example, The French & Indian War. By 1812, Native Americans had several hundred years of lies, broken promises, failed treaties, etc. All the way back to the British promising that settlers would not cross the Appalachian and Allegheny Mountains in PA (but settlers did) or the Blue Ridge Mountains (but settlers did), the "white man" (British, French, Spaniards) did not keep their word. Though depicted as "savages", Native Americans had strong values and more so, peaceful values. They were pushed more than once, and sometimes had to fight back.
The British fought against the French and Huron Indians.
The British fought against the French and Huron Indians.
The British PROCLAMATION OF 1763 established that all British-controlled lands west of the Appalachian Mountains were reserved exclusively for Native Americans. British colonists were forbidden from settling those regions. This would stand against US Western expansion until 1783 when the Treaty of Paris ceded all British territories between the Mississippi and the Appalachian Mountains to the nascent United States, which immediately rescinded the Proclamation of 1763.
The Appalachian Mountains provided a natural barrier to the western expansion of the English Colonies in America, or so some thought.
After a Native American war against the British in the Ohio River Valley known as Pontiac's Rebellion, the British signed a treaty in 1763 which stipulated that no whites could permanently settle west of the Appalachian mountains, with some exceptions for trading and military purposes. When the American colonies won their independence in 1783, the new country received the territory between the Appalachians and the Mississippi, and the white settlement there began.
After a Native American war against the British in the Ohio River Valley known as Pontiac's Rebellion, the British signed a treaty in 1763 which stipulated that no whites could permanently settle west of the Appalachian mountains, with some exceptions for trading and military purposes. When the American colonies won their independence in 1783, the new country received the territory between the Appalachians and the Mississippi, and the white settlement there began.
The Iroquois sided with the British for the French and Indian War. The British paid the Iroquois to kill Americans that crossed over the Appalachian Mountains. The Algonquin Indians sided with the French. The Algonquin also had fought against Americans in the colonies. The British had a superior army and the Iroquois were a more united group of native Americans
After a Native American war against the British in the Ohio River Valley known as Pontiac's Rebellion, the British signed a treaty in 1763 which stipulated that no whites could permanently settle west of the Appalachian mountains, with some exceptions for trading and military purposes. When the American colonies won their independence in 1783, the new country received the territory between the Appalachians and the Mississippi, and the white settlement there began.
The powerful Creeks, Cherokees, and Iroquois remained in the Appalachian Mountains as a barrier against white settlement.
The Appalachian Mountains provided a natural barrier to the western expansion of the English Colonies in America, or so some thought.
When the Revolutionary War began, Bernardo de Galvez was the governor of Louisiana, a Spanish colony at the time. His contribution to American success was preventing the British from utilizing the Mississippi River.
Two continental plates slammed into each other. The pressure of these two plates pushing against each other causing the earth to fold. This folding created anticlines and synclines that produces the mountains and valley's associated with folded mountains which the Appalachians.