Appendix A
Clash of Cultures
Complete the grid by describing the characteristics listed in the left-side column for the five groups named.
Native Americans
Northern Colonists
Mid-Atlantic Colonists
Southern Colonists
West Africans
Economic Structure
Trade networks: arrowheads, wampum, Roanoke, and food
Prospered through the cultivation of grains and cereals
Fishing, lumbering, farming, and ship building
Cash crop- mainly tobacco
Expansive lines of trade
Political Structure
Iroquois confederacy
Mayflower Compact, expansion of political freedom and self-rule
Colonial assemblies to address problems and make decisions usually within each town or village
Royal colony, House of Burgess, Proprietary Colony
Politics advanced
Social System
Clan system, Matrilineal
Small villages composed of several families.
Successful families were expected to give back to the community by helping the poor.
People with same ethnic backgrounds settled together in towns and villages
Families were unstable: marriages fragile, childbirth risky
Matrilineal, Kinship lines
Cultural Values
Haudenosaunee Confederacy- promote peaceful and productive interactions
Single men and women had to live with their families until they were wed
Ethnically diverse
Plantation model and the conquistador and model of settlement
Sophisticated societies that had highly developed skills
Religion
Polytheistic and Animistic
Puritans, Separatists, and Church of England
Biblical orthodoxy was demanded of all settlers
Roman Catholic
Puritans, Separatists
Islam or belief in a single supreme ruler and several lesser Gods
References
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