They were being repressed by the British rule and had no land to farm on. ... These families became the basis for the new East Indian communities. ... Instead of belonging to a settled community of families, they traveled from place to place with their work gangs. And although most of them had been farmers of farm laborers in the Punjab region of India, in America they often had to turn to other kinds of work (Dayes 22). ... Much of the conflict between old and new revolves around family life, the roles of women and children, and marriage-areas that in Indian culture are closely governed by tr...

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The settlers began to farm tobacco, which quickly became a profitable crop. ... The desire to attain land in the West often led colonists to ignore treaties as Indians were unlawfully and unfairly removed from their homes and farms, (Morgan 394). ... The gold rushes in the Western territories devastated the Indian's land and farms, despoiled sacred sites, and led to the extermination of whole tribes, (Villarde). ...

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Soldiers pricked friends and family with bayonets to keep them from turning back to help (Brill, 45). ... Manifest destiny had to be a real strong belief of Jackson because he said What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 12,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion? ...

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When European settlers came to the new world hoping to escape religious persecution, amass great wealth, or escape the poverty they experienced in their home countries. They came into contact with a race of people completely alien to them. Likewise, the arrival of the Dutch in Africa sent out shoc...

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This was not a native American practice, who generally did not farm, and so the American settlers believed that the land of new continent belonged to any who wished to "claim" it in proper claiming fashion. ...

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