Ronald Kokaki's From A Different Mirror For Young People

Our time period is like the others is quite complicated.it all started at the Columbian exchange in 1492 and goes through everything up to the Revolutionary War in 1775. It was a period filled with ideas of Liberalism, Democracy, and the start of the U.S. political system. We begin in 1492 when Columbus stumbled upon North America, in his search for India, soon after other European countries followed, all with different goals. The Spanish was the first to come over in the 1500's and quickly took jurisdiction over the southwest and Florida, their quest was to find gold, glory, and their God. Next, about 1530's the French, perusing the northwest passage, came to Canada. After they had secured Canada they traveled down the Mississippi river and claimed all the land from the great lakes to Louisiana. France's main goal was to
To back this theory up in Ronald Takaki’s book From a Different Mirror For Young People he says on page 33 paragraph three “William Tucker went to a Powhatan village to make a peace treaty. After they had signed the treaty, he persuaded the Indians to drink a toast- then served them poisoned wine, killing an estimated two hundred” this just proves our point showing how low the colonists stopped to get rid of the native Americans. But the real question is who really is the savage, well the definition of a savage is fierce and violent. It might just be our opinion but we think that colonists, in general, showed more violence toward the native Americans than they showed to the colonists. This period in American history is a truly interesting and complex time filled with many tragic moments but with an equal amount of heroic but over all the bad trumps the good and leaves us with a good story and opportunities to see from a different perspective. But more important it leads to a new way of thinking and the beginning of a truly amazing