Native Americans Vs White Colonists

21. Both Native Americans and White Colonists thought that each group was “wasting” their own land. Colonists believed that the Natives weren’t using and spreading their land to its fullest potential while the Natives had never fathomed the fact that you could have individual ownership over an acre of space.
New England life varied from other colonial regions because:
1. It was less ethically mixed than the middle or southern regions. Ideas such as black slavery did not excel, and it was an almost isolated environment.
2. Although it had good soil for a flourishing planting, the climate was unfavorable to many settlers.
3. Native Americans had already greatly impacted the area, leaving their territorial mark upon areas.
4. It focused less on livestock and turned their attention to the shore and natural harbors.
5. Definitely not as liberal as the middle colonies, it was very aristocratic considering social class.
Commuting from Scotland to Ireland, then to Pennsylvania, they ended up farther West than the Germans or Quakers, settling the land there. Although they had many flaws (such as stabilizing a solid community, keeping peace with Indians or wasting precious land and resources) they were excellent frontiersmen. They ended up along the “great wagon road” in the eastern Appalachians. They led two movements- the Paxton Boys protest in Philadelphia in 1764, and the Regulator Movement in North Carolina. “Hotheaded” as they’re called, they protested such things as the Quaker’s relationship with the Native Americans and the Eastern domination of the