User:Kohualiikoa/Tribal sovereignty in the United States

Early reasons to why sovereignty meant a lot to America. When America declared as independent, they felt that, “Americans as “one people” who had the right “to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them.” The evolution of the relationship between tribal governments and federal governments has been glued together through partnerships and agreements. Also running into problems of course such as finances which also led to not being able to have a stable social and political structure at the helm of these tribes or states. We also can note about the social change and national development at this time. We understand that the US in 1776 started as the thirteen colonies and later expanded down the east coast from Maine to Louisiana which included several others as some years went by. “The new shape of the nation reflected much more than just physical expansion. This period also witnessed dramatic economic and religious changes. A new capitalist economy enormously expanded wealth and laid the foundation for the Industrial Revolution that flourished later in the 19th century. The great opportunities of economic development also brought new hardships for many people, especially those who toiled as slaves under the startlingly new system of cotton slavery that boomed in the early 19th century.” From this we understand that the expansion was not only by physical movement but also in regards to political and economic use for the nation.