. So who is right?This is the kind of confusion that can only lead to conflict, and as tension grew it was fairly obvious that the battles would too. So what right did the Americans have to disagree? Spawned from Britain should they be grateful for what they have, should they just accept the position they were in? That seems one aspect doesn’t it, but the colonies were stubborn and insubordinate. With the real power thousands of miles always they figured they couldn’t do anything about it. And it was that attitude which led into the rebellion.But who was rebelling against this law? It was men like Patrick hennery and other rich Virginian landowners, Richard Henderson and his friends in North Carolina. These men openly rejected the proclamation and surveyed, settled and negotiated land grants from the Cherokee and other Indian nations. Although illegal, settlers openly dismissed the document that stated the laws and continued to settle I Indian Territory. Seen as a tyrannical force the new “Americans” found union in a common goal. What once were divided were eventually joined in matrimony of rebellion and civil strife. It is interesting to see how our nation of the free, and land of opportunity, is formed from the suffering of others. Weather it was the Indian land we occupied, the slave labor we used, the settlers we sent to tame our lands, or the British blood we spilled, our country was built on rebellion. This document is just a symbol of how through the oppression of a scattered few a union can form into what we today call the United Stated of America, land of the free, home of the brave....
