European Colonists and American Indians interacted in different ways that established a variety of relationships among the different cultures and people, varying region to region. In the colony of New England, the two main groups of people were the English Puritan settlers, who were primarily driven by religious duty, and the Pequot Tribe, who were one of the most powerful Native American tribes in that region. In 1620, just before the English arrived, a smallpox epidemic among various other diseases, devastated various Native American tribes located throughout New England, including the Wampanoag and Pequot tribes. This plague subsequently killed three fourths of the indigenous population located in the region of New England. Due to their …show more content…
The main battle consisted of the English Puritans setting fire to a Pequot Village on the Mystic River, annihilating the any natives that stood in their way. The Puritans used religion to justify their actions during and after the war. This was demonstrated when John Mason, the leader of the raid, claimed that the attack was an act of God. The Pequot War was followed by 40 years of peace between the English settlers and the Native American population located in that region. When the English first arrived in New England, they used the natives to better themselves and secure their place in the New World. As the English felt they had learned all they could from the natives they no longer had any need for them and wanted them out of the New England territory they inhabited. The English Colonist continued to employ their brutish tactics on the Indians whenever the need …show more content…
While this gave them access to the valuable furs found on the Huron’s land, it also gave them a new enemy, the Iroquois. The Iroquois were the rival of the Hurons and the French’s pacts with the Hurons greatly angered the Iroquois. To get back at the two, the Iroquois refused the French access to parts Ohio River Valley and the Mississippi River. This was where the extremely valuable beaver pelt was located, and the Mississippi River was an essential part of the French’s trading system in North America. Because of this, the French fought a series of wars against the Iroquois to gain access to these regions. This confrontation between the French and the Iroquois was still visible one-hundred years later in the French and Indian war where the French, the Hurons, and their Native American allies fought against the British, the Iroquois, and their other Native American allies. The dispute was never resolved until the French were completely driven out of North
Relations with the Native’s and the English had been tense since the beginning, because the Pequot were gaining control of the Connecticut River Valley so they can have more power. This of many were reasons that The Pequot War started. The Pequot war was an armed conflict the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the English Colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth and Saybrook colonies . The English had allies that helped them win the war.
Because of the Treaty of Paris, Britain gained a substantial portion of American soil. Britain tried to discourage Americans from settling there because their resources were running low. Because French government had yielded this land to Britain, didn’t necessarily mean that the Ohio Valley’s French peoples would give up their rights to land or trade, readily. Spread out groups of French settlers made Britain scared of another long fight. The Native Americans, who were allied with the French, continued to battle after the peace had been obtained.
Upon their arrival to the North American continent, the Jamestown settlers had to deal with the numerous problems of a newly settled and distant colony, and Powhatan influences, as well as the discovery of the events that would improve their developing society. Although England learned of America’s existence years before their Jamestown settlement was established, there did not exist any accurate map of the Virginian geography until after the settlement had already been established. As a consequence of this, many settlements started on the American coastline and developed from there, yet these settlements would still struggle to exist while the colonists became familiar with their new found surroundings. Being unfamiliar with the environment, the first settlers had a difficult time navigating, expanding the settlement, and farming sufficient crops.
¨Wingfield and Kendall, living in disgrace strengthened themselves with the sailors and other confederates to regain their former credit and authority, or at least such means aboard the pinnace, to alter her course and to go for England.¨ In this essay, we will see that Jamestown and Plymouth are two very different colonies. They live in different places, have different reasons for settling, and probably have many reasons for them to come settle where they decided to settle. And yet, they also have similarities that bring them closer together because they mostly came from the same time of place looking for something. Even though these colonies have similarities and differences, they both still exude qualities that make them unique.
The French and Indian War altered the relations of the American Colonies and Britain through political, economic, and geographical issues. At the start of the French and Indian War the French owned a big majority of land but the during the war the French lost their land to the English. The Treaty of Paris in 1763 gave the English, the French land of North America (Doc A).
Upon the Puritans arrival in the New England colonies their relationship with the indigenous peoples, called the Pequot’s, started off on bad footing. They sought to acquire Indian lands and were prepared to use tactics such as ruining the natives land with livestock, fining them for breaking English law, and making deals with corrupt Indian leaders. The disdain the puritan colonists held the natives in is the source that caused things to become disastrous. When the Anglo-Saxon people turned to war to gain what the sought after and had no problems killing the Pequot’s as they slept you see that they believed the natives were beneath them. What could have been a beneficial relationship of equableness and trade became a bloody conflict.
139). However, at the end of the Seven Years War, France was forced to cede their claims to Choctaw homeland to the British Empire (Calloway, pg. 140). With their main ally defeated, the French would have no option but to turn to the English for trade and supplies that were critical to their survival. This transition was especially tough due to the declining population of the whitetail deer that was their most precious trade item (Calloway, pg. 140). In contrast to the Chickasaws problem, external war affairs were not the main problem for the Choctaw nation.
The Indians were very nice at first, trading all of their goods and supplies. But the natives took a turn for the worst after they took two Indians back to the Americas, so John White's men came over and burnt the first native village they came
Many Europeans believed that they were superior to other cultures. They had a mindset that they were more deserving and more civilized than other peoples. This caused problems between the Europeans and other cultures. When the Europeans arrived in America, there was no hostility between the groups, but as time went on this European mentality caused many conflicts between the different cultures in the New World. Native americans were initially scared of the European settlers.
American Revolution Effects Essay The American Revolution was the war in which Great Britain’s thirteen North American colonies won their independence. The revolution began in 1775 and ended in 1783. Some causes of the revolution were unfair, harsh taxes, the American colonies wanted to be independent and they felt that it was necessary to have a say in what goes on in Britain’s parliament or to at least vote for Britain’s law makers. After the war, the colonies became a new country, the United States of America after a Declaration of Independence in 1776.
European exploration of the West began in 1500 and continued to flourish for over three centuries. While colonizing this new land, Europeans first came into contact with the native peoples. European religious views, gender roles, and land ownership shaped their interactions with Native Americans. The English, for example, practiced Christianity, while the Native Americans possessed a more spiritual and animalistic religion. Native American societies were heavily reliant on women for not only household duties, but also agricultural responsibilities.
In the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Puritans, at first, established a good relationship with a Native American tribe called the Pequots. These quandaries were compounded by the Puritans' incrementing conviction that the Indians' claims were invalid, because God had bestowed
Upon the first colonial establishments, the Europeans viewed Native Americans as uncultured, unintelligent, and uncivilized. The first colonizers found themselves ultimately superior to the perceived rudimentary cultural and societal customs that were observed. Native Americans viewed Europeans as a strictly one sided cultural mass enforcement foreign establishment, stopping at nothing to enforce their perceived superiority in all forms of cultural and societal aspects. Differences in land use, gender roles, and societal history added to the wedging and hostility between the Native Americans and European people. Upon the European's first impression of Native American culture, the first notable aspect of their "species" and society was their promising outlook as potential slave laborers.
Compare and Contrast the Native American Culture Introduction The Native Americans were the original owners of the United States of America. However, due to the population increase in Europe, the European migrated to America in seek of land for farming, settlement, and spread their religion (Desai, n.p). The two communities lived together and interacted with each other.
Throughout the late 1400’s and the 1500’s, the world experienced many changes due to the discoveries of new lands and peoples that had been never been visited before. The new-found lands of the Americas and exploration of Africa by the Europeans led to new colonies and discoveries in both areas. It also brought different societies and cultures together that had never before communicated, causing conflict in many of these places. While the Europeans treated both the Native Americans and West Africans as inferior people, the early effects they had on the Native Americans were much worse. Beginning in the late 1400’s, many different European explorers started to look for new trade routes in the Eastern Hemisphere in order to gain economic and religious power.