The Transition Of Cultural Differences In The United States

The land that we live on, the Constitution we abide by today and the different cultures we encounter today were not brought here by accident. The United States is a country founded by immigrants from Europe. It was not an overnight process that occurred in a short amount of time. It was a transition that involved a case of cultural encounter, the interaction of two different cultures from diverse backgrounds. From 1492-1763, North America, the new world was under a stage of colonization between indigenous Native Americans, with Spanish and British from Europe, the old world. Others involved were Africans were stripped of rights, sent overseas to the new world and engage in their new lifestyle as working slaves for the colonizers. Of the many
decades in colonial America, our class was to focus on “colonial California”, the period of the Spanish incursion up until the Mexican Independence in 1821. Trading resources amongst the old and new world along with the demand for land were also factors that had an important role during cultural encounters and the transition during colonial America.