1. Jamestown was the first colony that gets found. It was there where the first permanent settlement occurs. Jamestown was a poor location for colonization. The men dug wells to obtain water, but the water they found could not drink because it was contaminated. In addition, the ground was wet and had too many mosquitos. The mosquitoes were carriers of diseases and made the settlers sick. After a year, about half of the settlers had died of disease and starvation. The Native American Indians kept the English alive providing them with food. The English were so busy trying to discover gold that they didn't bother trying to grow food. That was when Captain John Smith became leader of the Jamestown colony. He saved the colony by creating a rule, which maintained that anyone who did not work would have no right to eat. This made the colonist planted food, and they were forced to build shelters and fences to protect against any attack. These American Indians or “Amerinds”, showed them great diversity of character and attainments due to the differences in climate, soil, food, building material, and the activities necessary to preserve life. They taught the settlers how to plant and grow corn, beans, squash, etc. and also helped them to establish good relations with neighboring Indian tribes. On the other hand what the English settlers offered to Native Americans Indians was different. In exchange for food, they offered them weapons, horses, cattle, sheep, vegetables and fruits, hatchets, swords, metal pots, skillets and knives, which would give them the technological advantage over their enemies. They brought not only tools for the conquest of the wilderness, but also the forms of government, the religion, the books, and the languages of the Old World. But besides the different technologies and different lifestyles that they offered to them, the English brought with them…
The New England Colonists highly valued religion and rules. Some well known colonists are the Pilgrims. The Pilgrims came to the New England Colonies for freedom of religion. They believed that the Church of England had gone to far beyond Christ’s teachings. There way of dealing with serious crimes was execution. The lesser crimes were handled with fines. There was one law on guns, if you did not bring a loaded gun to church you were fined 12 shillings. The church building itself had no significance to the Pilgrims, and was usually called simply the "meetingplace" or "meetinghouse". The meetinghouse was kept drab, and had no religious icons. The pastor was not essential to the church. Another well known group of colonists are the Puritans.…
When the colonists first came to the New World in 1607, they settled near a river, naming the river ‘The James’. James Fort, a colony the people had built near James River, was renamed Jamestown in honor of Kind James 1 of England who was ruling at the time. The men of Jamestown didn’t build decent shelters and didn’t know how to farm, causing starvation for them all. Their luck changed however, once they found and grew tobacco, making them rich and able to feed themselves…
The English settlers developed a selection of stereotypes against the Native Americans, ranking them as uncivilized and thus making it easier on themselves to lead the culture into their impossible situation, where the Natives have no choice but to either fight and lose or sit and do nothing, however if assimilation could have occurred through education or social structure the final outcome could have been mutually just for the two civilizations.…
At the beginning of the Columbian Exchange, native Americans were weakened by disease brought by the conquerors, reducing their population by millions. It would have been impossible, in such a short amount of time, for the conquerors to subdue millions of people with only hundreds of soldiers, even with their horses and guns, unless natives were somehow weakened. It is because of this that J.R. McNeill (n.d.) stated, “By far the most dramatic and devastating impact of the Columbian Exchange followed the introduction of new diseases into the Americas.” Diseases like smallpox, typhus fever, or measles, among many others, were the silent monsters that almost completely annihilate American native populations. Two examples of the destructive nature…
it was the prompt from the summer essay; access why over the course of the 17th and 18th centuries colonists went from considering themselves British subjects to indentifying themselves as Americans…
The colonization had various positive influences on the Native American way of life. The most notable change was in Agriculture. European introduced various crops such as wheat, sugar, rice, coffee, and beans to the Native Americans. These crops were not originally found in the New World. In addition to the crops, Europeans also brought over horses, cows, and pigs. However, the New World provided the Old World with new crops as well; they provided corn, potatoes, and cocoa plants. The agricultural exchanges between both worlds provided change in the consumption for both people. This lead to the changes in the economy for the New World; the establishment of gold, silver, and tobacco was now utilized as a cash crop to continue the trade between both worlds.…
Around the 1870s, the government handed out ration of food to Indians. Native Americans were not able to freely do anything during Western Expansion because they were only allowed to be in the reservations. They were not able to hunt or farm so the government distributed food to them. Native Americans were not able to hunt anymore because all of the buffalo were gone due to the settlers. Their reservations were poor land with no rich soil to farm. The Native Americans couldn’t supply no more food to their tribes so they had no choice but to accept the food rations from the government.…
Some of the crops the Native Americans introduced them to were maize, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, chocolate and tobacco. Maize and sweet potatoes soon became an important food throughout the world; however, the white potato would become a major part of the European diet. The Europeans and Africans also introduced new crops to the Native Americans, such as rice, wheat, sugar cane, bananas, onions, and…
In the 1600s we saw the start of an overwhelming surge of pioneers from Europe to North America (INTEXT). Spanning more than three hundred years, this quest grew from a couple hundred English settlers to millions of newcomers settling into the New World (INTEXT). Energized by capable and differing motivations, these settlers would construct new civic establishments on the northern shores of what they portrayed as the New World (INTEXT). The principal English workers to what is presently the United States crossed the Atlantic long in the wake of flourishing Spanish provinces had been set up in Mexico, the West Indies and South America (INTEXT). Like every single early explorer to the New World, they came in little, well-packed vessels (INTEXT).…
The English had never been or explored any other places except where they’d always lived. So when this new idea of immigration came into the scene the English were and little confused but also interested on what else was out there for them to see. New ideas and ways of living were founded in this time of immigration.…
The colonists’ policy toward the Native Americans had different origins and therefore different consequences. Much has been written about the encounter of these two cultures, which would sooner or later bring about a painful clash. Because of their so different cultures, only one would prevail. The colonists as a group, depending on their beliefs, had harsh policy toward Native Americans. Native Americans, on the other hand, structured their lives on beliefs, which had no common base ground with the colonists. As a clear example of this, Native Americans believed that no one owned the land, that the rich earth was abundant for all. As the colonies populated, harsher policies toward Native Americans arose, and the conflicts between the colonists…
The neglect of Native American rights traces all the way back to 1830 and stems from the Indian Removal Act. The Indian Removal Act enabled the federal government to exchange Native lands east of the mississippi for land in the west. This land was called the “Indian colonization zone,” which is located in present-day Oklahoma. Being a big advocate and supporter of what he called “Indian Removal,” Andrew Jackson signed off on Act. The act explicitly said that the removal treaty negotiations had to be fair, peaceful, and that the president could not try to persuade Native nations into giving up their land.…
Danielle Heinemann September 10, 2014 His 106 Section 8 Bailey When the English people started to arrive in America around the 19th century, they saw the land as their land. The government felt that the colonizing of people was much more the entitlement of the Native American and made several federal policies that insured specific tribes would be moved to pre-determined reservations to continue their traditional way of life. This was done despite how negatively it affected the Native Americans. After being forced to leave their native lands, many Indians discovered that life would be pretty difficult.…
6. Based on my readings and my own experience new immigrants are better off with the Ethnic Enclave Model. In the reading they made it clear that an immigrant can get up the ladder in a business much faster and with greater ease if he is working with and for people they feel a familiarity with. A “ethnic spirit,” a sense of helping each other to help themselves keeps them motivated. Part of why I think that this concept works well for all immigrants of color are that there is a reason that these communities are still around today. The reason Chinatown, Little Italy and Little Havana are all thriving communities because the concept works and people of the same ethnicity help each other and feel much more comfortable and in tune with someone of the from where they are from more than a normal white man would help a man that just came to America from Cuba who doesn't speak any…