Indian Expansion

The expansion of the British empire influenced the liberties of Native American (Indians) by moving the Indians and settling on their land. The English traded supplies with the native folks, and Indians frequently journeyed across colonial villages. Fur traders on the borders of the colony occasionally married Indian women, partly as a way of acquiring entry to native communities and the tribe links, which were vital to economic contacts. Most English pioneers stayed stubbornly isolated from their Indian neighbors. As the settlers procured military advantage over the Indians, the revenues of commerce generally went to colonial and European merchants. Increasing connections with Europeans stirred rivalry among Indian clans, and the overhunting

of beaver and deer drove some groups to intrude on ground claimed by others. Newcomers from Europe carried diseases that wiped out Indian populations. In subjugating Ireland, whose Catholic populace was supposed a risk to the stability of Protestant leadership in England, the government commissioned an array of tactics, including military attack, the massacre of civilians, the capture of land and introduction of English economic procedures, and the murder of large numbers of colonists. The English omitted the natives from a part of settlement recognized as the Pale, where the settlers shaped their own social order instead of pursuing to engross the Irish into English society. The extension of the British empire created a period of social disaster in England, with economic development unable to retain progress with the needs of a population that multiplied promptly. Numerous flooded into England’s cities, where wages dropped drastically. Others, condemned by the public as rogues, vagabonds, and vagrants, roamed the streets in seek of jobs. Their state grew worse as fees throughout Europe rose, sustained by the influx of fortunes from the mines of Latin America into Spain. Poverty swamped the nation and altered the economy exceedingly.