Northwest Passage

Examples of Northwest Passage in the following topics:

• The British Empire

  • British exploration of the New World centered on searching for a Northwest Passage through the continent and plundering Spanish ships.
  • Sir Martin Frobisher was an English seaman who made three voyages (1576-1678) to the New World to look for the Northwest Passage .
  • Hudson made two attempts on behalf of English merchants to find a prospective Northwest Passage via a route above the Arctic Circle.
  • In 1611, Hudson discovered a strait and immense bay on his final expedition while searching for the Northwest Passage.

• The French Empire

  • The search for a Northwest Passage to Asia and the burgeoning fur trade in Europe, drove the French to explore and settle North America.
  • Lawrence River Region had neither abundant gold nor a northwest passage to Asia.

• European Empires in North America

  • British exploration of the New World centered on searching for a northwest passage through the continent.
  • Hudson made two attempts on behalf of English merchants to find a prospective northwest passage via a route above the Arctic Circle.
  • In 1611, Hudson discovered a strait and immense bay on his final expedition while searching for the Northwest Passage.
  • The search for a northwest passage to Asia and the burgeoning fur trade in Europe drove the French to explore and settle North America.
  • Lawrence River region had neither abundant gold nor a northwest passage to Asia.

• The Dutch Empire

  • In 1602, the government of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands chartered the Dutch East India Company with the mission of exploring for a passage to the Indies and claiming any uncharted areas for the United Provinces.
  • In 1609, the Dutch East India Company commissioned English explorer Henry Hudson who, in an attempt to find the fabled northwest passage to the Indies, discovered and claimed for the VOC parts of the present-day United States and Canada.

• Toward Free Labor

  • Consequently, the more common solution was to pay the passage of a young worker from England or Germany, who would work for several years to pay off his or her travel costs.
  • Displaced from their land and unable to find work in the cities, many young people signed contracts of indenture and took passage to the Americas.
  • After indentures were forbidden, the passage had to be prepaid, giving rise to the inhumane conditions of Irish 'coffin ships' in the second half of the 19th century.
  • Indentured servitude was often how immigrants were able to fund their passage to the Americas.
  • A proposed amendment to the Northwest Ordinance of 1784 that would have outlawed both slavery and indentured servitude.

• Land Ordinances and the Northwest Territory

  • The Northwest Ordinance established the precedent for expansion westward across North America with the admission of new states.
  • The Land Ordinance of 1785 laid the foundations of land policy until passage of the Homestead Act in 1862.
  • The primary effect of the Northwest Ordinance was the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States out of the region south of the Great Lakes, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River.
  • On August 7, 1789, President George Washington signed the Northwest Ordinance of 1789 into law after the newly created U.S.
  • The passage of the ordinance, which ceded all unsettled lands to the federal government, followed the relinquishing of all such claims over the territory by the states.

• The Barbary Wars

  • The Barbary Wars were two wars fought between the United States and the Northwest African Barbary States in the early nineteenth century.
  • The First Barbary War (1801–1805), also known as the Tripolitan War or the Barbary Coast War, was the first of the two wars fought between the United States and the Northwest African Berber Muslim states, known collectively as the Barbary States.
  • After a stunning defeat at Tripoli and wearied from the blockade and raids, Yussif Karamanli signed a treaty ending hostilities on June 10, 1805, and the United States was given fair passage through the Mediterranean.

• The Politics of Slavery

  • Slavery was also a subject of Federal legislation, as seen in the banning on the trans-Atlantic slave trade in 1808 and the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
  • Through the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, slavery was prohibited in the territories northwest of the Ohio River.

• The Lewis and Clark Expedition

  • Their mission, in addition to surveying and recording the geography and observing the native peoples of the region, was to find a passage to the Pacific Ocean in order to facilitate trade with Asia.
  • Establishing an overland route to the Pacific also would bolster U.S. claims to the Pacific Northwest.
  • This map illustrates the route of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, through the Louisiana Territory and across the present-day Pacific Northwest to the Pacific Ocean.

• The Louisiana Purchase

  • Because the Appalachian Mountains formed a natural barrier and made passage to the West nearly impossible, Daniel Boone established the Wilderness Road in 1775, when he created a trail for the Transylvania Company from Virginia through central Kentucky.
  • The Wilderness Road was steep and rough, and it only could be traversed on foot or horseback, making passage difficult.
  • Louisiana was incorporated into the Union in a fashion similar to that of the Old Southwest (Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama) and, to a lesser extent, to that of the Old Northwest (Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota).
  • Unlike the Old Northwest, where the Northwest Ordinance prohibited slavery, Louisiana already boasted an active plantation regime in its southern tier.