Who Discovered Americ Who Discovered America?
Jeffrey Lu
Hour 6
Chapter 1: Europe Discovers America
Who Discovered America?
The first humans to reach America were nomads in search of food and land. They crossed the land bridge that connected Asia and North America, which is now long gone.
Leif Ericson was probably the first European to reach America. His discovery was passed on unnoticed and he is not real to the modern world.
Amerigo Vespucci came upon the northern coast of South America. A few years later, someone credited him for discovering the new world and suggested it be named America.
Christopher Columbus is credited for discovering North America. He landed in the Caribbean, thinking he had discovered a sea route to Asia. He died still thinking he found a way to Asia, but now he is known for …show more content…
discovering the New World. Columbus got all the credit because Ericson came to North America before Europe was ready while Vespucci came while Europe had already found another world.
I. Columbus and the Discovery of America
On October 12, 1492 Christopher’s Columbus’s crew spotted an island in the West Indies. Columbus named the island San Salvador, or Holy Savior, out of the gratitude for finally having reached land. This discovery was so important, as the island was a gateway between the Old and New World.
Columbus failed to acknowledge his accomplishments simply because he had no idea he was sailing around the edge of two continents unknown to the Europeans. He thought he had discovered an alternate sea route to Asia and the Orient.
Valued oriental products and tropical foods often flowed into Europe by Italian city-states. By the time these goods reached Europe though, the prices of these valuable objects had soared above the original price. That’s why Columbus thought of the endless riches he could obtain by eliminating the middle man and trading directly with Asia.
Labor shortages occurred, and as labor became more valuable serfs won more rights to pay off their duties and move on to the towns or new farmland. Lords encouraged the serfs to move on to the new lands; they also needed money rather than the serf’s service in order to obtain the expensive oriental goodies being sold by traders.
Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal attempted to improve navigation/ exploration. He cared for the advancement in knowledge and searched for a new route to the Orient. The Portuguese realized that if they could find a way around Africa they will sail directly to India, and the profits from the voyage would be huge. Most of the Portuguese voyages were taken by private merchants.
Columbus’s single minded belief was that the Indies could be reached by sailing west and a profitable trade would develop, leading to his success. That is why when he discovered land he refused to believe the plain evidence that the land around him was a whole new world. Columbus was convinced he had reached the Indies even after returning to Spain empty handed. He persuaded Queen Isabella to grant him certain promotions should he find new land or a route to Asia.
II. Spain’s American Empire
In the year 1494, the two powerful countries of Spain and Portugal negotiated an agreement to utilize and conquer the new discoveries of the New World as stated in the Treaty of Tordesillas. Portugal concentrated on Africa, leaving the new world (except Brazil) to the Spaniards.
Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Panama and discovered the Pacific Ocean. Hernan Cortes landed in Mexico and destroyed the Aztec Empire. Francisco Pizarro dominated the Inca Empire in Peru. Juan Ponce de Leon made the first Spanish landing on the mainland of North America, exploring the east coast of Florida.
Fifty years after Columbus’s arrival in the New World, Spain became the master of a huge American empire covering all of South America and the southern fringe of North America. They built small settlements all over the New World.
The Spanish developed a distinctive civilization; they founded about 200 cities/towns and set up printing presses, universities, and cathedrals.
Greed and gold lead to a surge of exploration, but a sense of adventure set it off as well. The Spaniards wished to Christianize the Indians and make better lives. They loved the New World for its promise, and took advantage of its emptiness.
III. The Indian and the European
We cannot forget that the Europeans took this land from the innocent Indians. The Europeans wrought unnecessary destruction and mass murder.
The Indians were very generous and giving; they never said no and rather invited people to accept items. The reason for this behavior was due to their thoughts that the Spaniards were like gods.
The Indians were not technologically advanced beings. Simple items like knives, hatchets, and fishhooks made of metal were intriguing and beyond price. Everyday items like clocks, magnets, and compasses even impressed them. They had no iron, and they cut themselves on swords out of their own ignorance to hold them by the blade.
The Indians were easily subjected, so Columbus and his compatriots tricked and cheated them every chance they got. Columbus kidnapped a few Indians here and there to find information about where they could find gold.
IV. Native American Civilizations
Over the centuries the Indian’s culture has developed and evolved. Climate, soil conditions, wars, and other factors shaped their lives. They developed thousands of languages that were spoken all over the Americas; extraordinary varieties were displayed in the smallest areas.
Europeans and Indians in fact had many traits in common. They Indians were no without evil; cruelty, war, and slavery existed in the New World long before the arrival of Columbus. Both ethic groups were also chauvinists and regarded hunting and fishing as a male dominant role.
The Europeans thought of Indians and non-Europeans as inferior beings although their prejudices were not always racial, and Indians thought they were gods. Both groups were naïve in thinking. A difference in thinking led the Europeans to think of the Indians as creatures that should not be treated with equality.
V. Spain’s European Rivals
John Cabot’s, of England, adventure to the New World formed the basis of later British claims. Other explorers from different countries also came to explore the New World in Canada and the St. Lawrence River.
By the sixteenth country, fisherman from France, Spain, Portugal, and England were all relishing in the fish they caught from the shores of the Newfoundland. They made no permanent settlements however.
France and England’s religious and political conflicts caused a delay in their settlement in the New World.
Spain’s tranquility allowed them to conquer much of the Americas and Europe. However, corruption in the Spanish court, their dependence upon precious metals, and the disruption of the Catholic Church was threatening the great empire.
VI. The Protestant Reformation
Corruptions in the Roman Catholic Church caused Martin Luther to launch a reform movement. The charismatic and compelling brilliance of Luther and Calvin made their protests more effective than previous reformation attempts. Many royals from different countries seized the opportunity to rebel.
These conflicts launched a theory that the merchant classes were attracted to Protestantism did not frown upon wealth. Some merchants remained loyal to the Catholics, while most of them began to support Protestant leaders.
VII. English Beginnings in America
Many English merchants took part in international activities. In 1570, Martin Frobisher took three voyages around the Atlantic hoping to find a passage to the Orients or new gold bearing lands. These projects received strong concealed support from the Elizabeth I.
The first English effort to place settlers in the New World started with Sir Humphrey Gilbert. Gilbert’s concentrated on the northwest route, and soon the queen authorized him to explore and colonize the lands not actually owned by Christians from 1578-1579. Gilbert’s next sailing occurred in 1583. With 5 ships and 200 settlers, he landed in Newfoundland. No colony was established and on the way home his ship capsized in a storm.
Gilbert’s half-brother, Sir Walter Raleigh, continued the work. Numerous expeditions were sent to explore the east coast of North America (Virginia). In 1587, a second group of settlers that included women and children were sent to Roanoke Island, but the supply ships failed to arrive and when help did get there not a soul was found. The settlers’ fates were never discovered.
The Spanish Armanda attack, in 1588 lead to the delay of getting aid to the people of Roanoke. They were angered by shipping raid and the assistance Elizabeth was giving to the rebels in the Netherlands. Carrying 30,000 men and 2,400 guns, it was the largest naval force ever in that time.
Only after Queen Elizabeth’s death did people act on the suggestions to build American colonies.
VIII. The Settlement of Virginia
In September 1605, 2 groups of English merchants petitioned the new King James to colonize in Virginia.
On May 1607, the first permanent English colony in the New World was founded by Chesapeake Bay by a little band of settlers sent by the London Company. Everything went wrong. The settlers were practically in a swamp simply because they believed it would help protect from Indian attacks. Plants were planted too late, and the leaders didn’t respond to the challenged because they were unused to labor and lacked skills pioneers need. Half were dead by the first winter.
The land essentially belonged to the Company. The settlers living there were only hired for 7 years to work the land and this situation demanded people with agricultural skills. However, the Company failed to give the colony guidance and instead directed the settlers to become laborers and search for gold, winemaking, glassblowing, and searching rives for a water route to China.
Captain John Smith attempted to stop this foolishness. He realized raising food, building houses were essential to survival, as well as that taking advantage of the Indians would lead to bloodshed.
The realization that the settlers must produce their own food and the discovery of tobacco saved the Virginians. John Rolfe, the man who married Pocahontas, introduced the West Indian Tobacco in 1612. Large profits resulted, allowing the colonists to be freed from dependence.
IX. “Purifying” the Church of England
The Anglican Church became the official Church of England during the reign of Elizabeth, which still closely resembled the Catholic Church. This middle way satisfied some, but not all Catholics accepted this and even left England to practice their faith in private.
Some radical Protestants still believed the Church too similar to the Church of Rome. Those who wanted to ‘purify’ the Anglican Church were called Puritans. The Anglicans implied that while God has made up his mind on whether a person is saved, efforts to live a better life can somehow change God’s mind.
The new king, James I, was married to a Catholic and the fact that he tolerated Catholics brought back fears that the royal court was sliding back to its old ways.
He did little to move the protestant cause.
X. “Of Plymouth Plantation”
Many members of the Anglican Church separated from it, declaring it corrupted beyond salvage. They were forced to go underground or be exiled. These Separatists moved to other places, mainly the Netherlands, and then the New World.
Forming a joint-stock with other emigrants and investors who agreed to pay in return for half the profits of the venture, the pilgrims set of from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower. Upon their arrival the pilgrims drew up the Mayflower Compact, a set of rules chosen by the members on how the society should be based.
The pilgrims endured a harsh winter and half of them died, but a local Indian names Squanto showed the pilgrims how to plant seeds and cultivate it, places to fish, etc.
The pilgrims choose William Bradford as their governor, in hopes that a government will help them cope with the wilderness confronting them. 30 years of the Pilgrim society are preserved in his writing, “Of Plymouth Plantation”.
XI. A Puritan
Commonwealth
The Dorchester Puritans organized the Massachusetts Bay Company and acted with a single minded determination that made it a way of obtaining religious refuge in America.
Continuing bad times and the prosecution of Puritans at home led to the Great Migration of the 1630’s. This group of prosperous and well-educated people created a complex civilization in an area of wilderness.
John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company, spoke for 20 years about the sensible Puritans and their high minded experiment. In his sermon, A Modelle of Christian Academy, he refers to their society as a “city upon the hill” to tell the people of how they are examples of the others to follow
The colonists created an elected legislature, the General Court, where only men were allowed to vote and hold office. They also developed a church - membership was restricted to only those who had evidence of saving grace and were visible saints.
XII. Troublemakers
Many of the early troublemakers came from its certified saints. They possessed many precious parts but were unsettled in judgment.
Roger Williams in particular was ready to bring the wrath of Charles I into New England rather than except the charters sign by him. He opposed the alliance of the church and government, insisted magistrates had no voice in spiritual matters, and offended property owners by stating that they had no rights to poses land without buying it.
Anne Hutchinson, another visible saint who took it too far. As a midwife she was brought to many homes where she would criticize the sermons of their minister. She also came to the conclusion that moral conduct and salvation had no relation.
XIII. Other New England Colonies
Settlement radiated outward toward other areas of the New England area surged by an expanding population and puritan tolerance.
In 1635, Massachusetts congregations pushed into the fertile valleys of the Connecticut River.
A group headed by Reverent Thomas Hooker founded Hartford. Hooker was influential in the drafting of the Fundamental Orders-a type of constitution for the valley towns.
XIV. French and Dutch Settlements
French explorers pushed up into St. Lawrence, where Samuel de Champlain made several voyages to in the 1530’s. French also planted colonies in the many islands in the West Indies.
The Dutch also established themselves in the West Indies where the founded the Hudson Valley, based on the explorations of Harold Hudson in 1609. Two years later New Amsterdam was founded at the mouth of the Hudson River.
XV. Maryland and the Carolinas
Establishing colonies in the Americas was becoming easier especially after 1630, people knew what to bring and that their attempts would be accomplished. Englishmen were receiving grants that made them proprietors, allowing them to grant land to settlers for some money in return. Other colonies were established (Maryland, Baltimore, and the Carolinas)
XVI. The Middle Colonies
In 1664, the English forces captured New Amsterdam and made it into New York. The Duke didn’t interfere much with the Dutch settlers so the area quickly fell into English rule.
William Penn, a Quaker Missionary, inherited a claim that the kind was reluctant to pay, so instead he was given the region north of Maryland, west of the Delaware River (Pennsylvania), and the region of Delaware was also added to Penn’s holdings. Penn considered his regions a “Holy Experiment”.
XVII. Indians and Europeans as “Americanizers”
In all of the English colonies, interaction with the Indians was a characteristic of life. The Englishmen learned much about how to live in the Americas from the Indians, from what to eat, to the names of plants and animals, and even what to wear. The introduction of corn contributed lots of success to the English colonies.
The Indians were introduced to new technologies and adopted it eagerly. They also took on many attitudes of the whites.
The fur trade in ways was a perfect business agreement that both parties benefitted from.
Although the colonist learned much from the Indians and adopted certain customs, their objective was no to become like the Indians; they actually feared that. However, this fear and rejection of Indians means in a way allowed these settlers to become who they are, Americans.
Hour 6
Chapter 1: Europe Discovers America
Who Discovered America?
The first humans to reach America were nomads in search of food and land. They crossed the land bridge that connected Asia and North America, which is now long gone.
Leif Ericson was probably the first European to reach America. His discovery was passed on unnoticed and he is not real to the modern world.
Amerigo Vespucci came upon the northern coast of South America. A few years later, someone credited him for discovering the new world and suggested it be named America.
Christopher Columbus is credited for discovering North America. He landed in the Caribbean, thinking he had discovered a sea route to Asia. He died still thinking he found a way to Asia, but now he is known for …show more content…
discovering the New World. Columbus got all the credit because Ericson came to North America before Europe was ready while Vespucci came while Europe had already found another world.
I. Columbus and the Discovery of America
On October 12, 1492 Christopher’s Columbus’s crew spotted an island in the West Indies. Columbus named the island San Salvador, or Holy Savior, out of the gratitude for finally having reached land. This discovery was so important, as the island was a gateway between the Old and New World.
Columbus failed to acknowledge his accomplishments simply because he had no idea he was sailing around the edge of two continents unknown to the Europeans. He thought he had discovered an alternate sea route to Asia and the Orient.
Valued oriental products and tropical foods often flowed into Europe by Italian city-states. By the time these goods reached Europe though, the prices of these valuable objects had soared above the original price. That’s why Columbus thought of the endless riches he could obtain by eliminating the middle man and trading directly with Asia.
Labor shortages occurred, and as labor became more valuable serfs won more rights to pay off their duties and move on to the towns or new farmland. Lords encouraged the serfs to move on to the new lands; they also needed money rather than the serf’s service in order to obtain the expensive oriental goodies being sold by traders.
Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal attempted to improve navigation/ exploration. He cared for the advancement in knowledge and searched for a new route to the Orient. The Portuguese realized that if they could find a way around Africa they will sail directly to India, and the profits from the voyage would be huge. Most of the Portuguese voyages were taken by private merchants.
Columbus’s single minded belief was that the Indies could be reached by sailing west and a profitable trade would develop, leading to his success. That is why when he discovered land he refused to believe the plain evidence that the land around him was a whole new world. Columbus was convinced he had reached the Indies even after returning to Spain empty handed. He persuaded Queen Isabella to grant him certain promotions should he find new land or a route to Asia.
II. Spain’s American Empire
In the year 1494, the two powerful countries of Spain and Portugal negotiated an agreement to utilize and conquer the new discoveries of the New World as stated in the Treaty of Tordesillas. Portugal concentrated on Africa, leaving the new world (except Brazil) to the Spaniards.
Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Panama and discovered the Pacific Ocean. Hernan Cortes landed in Mexico and destroyed the Aztec Empire. Francisco Pizarro dominated the Inca Empire in Peru. Juan Ponce de Leon made the first Spanish landing on the mainland of North America, exploring the east coast of Florida.
Fifty years after Columbus’s arrival in the New World, Spain became the master of a huge American empire covering all of South America and the southern fringe of North America. They built small settlements all over the New World.
The Spanish developed a distinctive civilization; they founded about 200 cities/towns and set up printing presses, universities, and cathedrals.
Greed and gold lead to a surge of exploration, but a sense of adventure set it off as well. The Spaniards wished to Christianize the Indians and make better lives. They loved the New World for its promise, and took advantage of its emptiness.
III. The Indian and the European
We cannot forget that the Europeans took this land from the innocent Indians. The Europeans wrought unnecessary destruction and mass murder.
The Indians were very generous and giving; they never said no and rather invited people to accept items. The reason for this behavior was due to their thoughts that the Spaniards were like gods.
The Indians were not technologically advanced beings. Simple items like knives, hatchets, and fishhooks made of metal were intriguing and beyond price. Everyday items like clocks, magnets, and compasses even impressed them. They had no iron, and they cut themselves on swords out of their own ignorance to hold them by the blade.
The Indians were easily subjected, so Columbus and his compatriots tricked and cheated them every chance they got. Columbus kidnapped a few Indians here and there to find information about where they could find gold.
IV. Native American Civilizations
Over the centuries the Indian’s culture has developed and evolved. Climate, soil conditions, wars, and other factors shaped their lives. They developed thousands of languages that were spoken all over the Americas; extraordinary varieties were displayed in the smallest areas.
Europeans and Indians in fact had many traits in common. They Indians were no without evil; cruelty, war, and slavery existed in the New World long before the arrival of Columbus. Both ethic groups were also chauvinists and regarded hunting and fishing as a male dominant role.
The Europeans thought of Indians and non-Europeans as inferior beings although their prejudices were not always racial, and Indians thought they were gods. Both groups were naïve in thinking. A difference in thinking led the Europeans to think of the Indians as creatures that should not be treated with equality.
V. Spain’s European Rivals
John Cabot’s, of England, adventure to the New World formed the basis of later British claims. Other explorers from different countries also came to explore the New World in Canada and the St. Lawrence River.
By the sixteenth country, fisherman from France, Spain, Portugal, and England were all relishing in the fish they caught from the shores of the Newfoundland. They made no permanent settlements however.
France and England’s religious and political conflicts caused a delay in their settlement in the New World.
Spain’s tranquility allowed them to conquer much of the Americas and Europe. However, corruption in the Spanish court, their dependence upon precious metals, and the disruption of the Catholic Church was threatening the great empire.
VI. The Protestant Reformation
Corruptions in the Roman Catholic Church caused Martin Luther to launch a reform movement. The charismatic and compelling brilliance of Luther and Calvin made their protests more effective than previous reformation attempts. Many royals from different countries seized the opportunity to rebel.
These conflicts launched a theory that the merchant classes were attracted to Protestantism did not frown upon wealth. Some merchants remained loyal to the Catholics, while most of them began to support Protestant leaders.
VII. English Beginnings in America
Many English merchants took part in international activities. In 1570, Martin Frobisher took three voyages around the Atlantic hoping to find a passage to the Orients or new gold bearing lands. These projects received strong concealed support from the Elizabeth I.
The first English effort to place settlers in the New World started with Sir Humphrey Gilbert. Gilbert’s concentrated on the northwest route, and soon the queen authorized him to explore and colonize the lands not actually owned by Christians from 1578-1579. Gilbert’s next sailing occurred in 1583. With 5 ships and 200 settlers, he landed in Newfoundland. No colony was established and on the way home his ship capsized in a storm.
Gilbert’s half-brother, Sir Walter Raleigh, continued the work. Numerous expeditions were sent to explore the east coast of North America (Virginia). In 1587, a second group of settlers that included women and children were sent to Roanoke Island, but the supply ships failed to arrive and when help did get there not a soul was found. The settlers’ fates were never discovered.
The Spanish Armanda attack, in 1588 lead to the delay of getting aid to the people of Roanoke. They were angered by shipping raid and the assistance Elizabeth was giving to the rebels in the Netherlands. Carrying 30,000 men and 2,400 guns, it was the largest naval force ever in that time.
Only after Queen Elizabeth’s death did people act on the suggestions to build American colonies.
VIII. The Settlement of Virginia
In September 1605, 2 groups of English merchants petitioned the new King James to colonize in Virginia.
On May 1607, the first permanent English colony in the New World was founded by Chesapeake Bay by a little band of settlers sent by the London Company. Everything went wrong. The settlers were practically in a swamp simply because they believed it would help protect from Indian attacks. Plants were planted too late, and the leaders didn’t respond to the challenged because they were unused to labor and lacked skills pioneers need. Half were dead by the first winter.
The land essentially belonged to the Company. The settlers living there were only hired for 7 years to work the land and this situation demanded people with agricultural skills. However, the Company failed to give the colony guidance and instead directed the settlers to become laborers and search for gold, winemaking, glassblowing, and searching rives for a water route to China.
Captain John Smith attempted to stop this foolishness. He realized raising food, building houses were essential to survival, as well as that taking advantage of the Indians would lead to bloodshed.
The realization that the settlers must produce their own food and the discovery of tobacco saved the Virginians. John Rolfe, the man who married Pocahontas, introduced the West Indian Tobacco in 1612. Large profits resulted, allowing the colonists to be freed from dependence.
IX. “Purifying” the Church of England
The Anglican Church became the official Church of England during the reign of Elizabeth, which still closely resembled the Catholic Church. This middle way satisfied some, but not all Catholics accepted this and even left England to practice their faith in private.
Some radical Protestants still believed the Church too similar to the Church of Rome. Those who wanted to ‘purify’ the Anglican Church were called Puritans. The Anglicans implied that while God has made up his mind on whether a person is saved, efforts to live a better life can somehow change God’s mind.
The new king, James I, was married to a Catholic and the fact that he tolerated Catholics brought back fears that the royal court was sliding back to its old ways.
He did little to move the protestant cause.
X. “Of Plymouth Plantation”
Many members of the Anglican Church separated from it, declaring it corrupted beyond salvage. They were forced to go underground or be exiled. These Separatists moved to other places, mainly the Netherlands, and then the New World.
Forming a joint-stock with other emigrants and investors who agreed to pay in return for half the profits of the venture, the pilgrims set of from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower. Upon their arrival the pilgrims drew up the Mayflower Compact, a set of rules chosen by the members on how the society should be based.
The pilgrims endured a harsh winter and half of them died, but a local Indian names Squanto showed the pilgrims how to plant seeds and cultivate it, places to fish, etc.
The pilgrims choose William Bradford as their governor, in hopes that a government will help them cope with the wilderness confronting them. 30 years of the Pilgrim society are preserved in his writing, “Of Plymouth Plantation”.
XI. A Puritan
Commonwealth
The Dorchester Puritans organized the Massachusetts Bay Company and acted with a single minded determination that made it a way of obtaining religious refuge in America.
Continuing bad times and the prosecution of Puritans at home led to the Great Migration of the 1630’s. This group of prosperous and well-educated people created a complex civilization in an area of wilderness.
John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company, spoke for 20 years about the sensible Puritans and their high minded experiment. In his sermon, A Modelle of Christian Academy, he refers to their society as a “city upon the hill” to tell the people of how they are examples of the others to follow
The colonists created an elected legislature, the General Court, where only men were allowed to vote and hold office. They also developed a church - membership was restricted to only those who had evidence of saving grace and were visible saints.
XII. Troublemakers
Many of the early troublemakers came from its certified saints. They possessed many precious parts but were unsettled in judgment.
Roger Williams in particular was ready to bring the wrath of Charles I into New England rather than except the charters sign by him. He opposed the alliance of the church and government, insisted magistrates had no voice in spiritual matters, and offended property owners by stating that they had no rights to poses land without buying it.
Anne Hutchinson, another visible saint who took it too far. As a midwife she was brought to many homes where she would criticize the sermons of their minister. She also came to the conclusion that moral conduct and salvation had no relation.
XIII. Other New England Colonies
Settlement radiated outward toward other areas of the New England area surged by an expanding population and puritan tolerance.
In 1635, Massachusetts congregations pushed into the fertile valleys of the Connecticut River.
A group headed by Reverent Thomas Hooker founded Hartford. Hooker was influential in the drafting of the Fundamental Orders-a type of constitution for the valley towns.
XIV. French and Dutch Settlements
French explorers pushed up into St. Lawrence, where Samuel de Champlain made several voyages to in the 1530’s. French also planted colonies in the many islands in the West Indies.
The Dutch also established themselves in the West Indies where the founded the Hudson Valley, based on the explorations of Harold Hudson in 1609. Two years later New Amsterdam was founded at the mouth of the Hudson River.
XV. Maryland and the Carolinas
Establishing colonies in the Americas was becoming easier especially after 1630, people knew what to bring and that their attempts would be accomplished. Englishmen were receiving grants that made them proprietors, allowing them to grant land to settlers for some money in return. Other colonies were established (Maryland, Baltimore, and the Carolinas)
XVI. The Middle Colonies
In 1664, the English forces captured New Amsterdam and made it into New York. The Duke didn’t interfere much with the Dutch settlers so the area quickly fell into English rule.
William Penn, a Quaker Missionary, inherited a claim that the kind was reluctant to pay, so instead he was given the region north of Maryland, west of the Delaware River (Pennsylvania), and the region of Delaware was also added to Penn’s holdings. Penn considered his regions a “Holy Experiment”.
XVII. Indians and Europeans as “Americanizers”
In all of the English colonies, interaction with the Indians was a characteristic of life. The Englishmen learned much about how to live in the Americas from the Indians, from what to eat, to the names of plants and animals, and even what to wear. The introduction of corn contributed lots of success to the English colonies.
The Indians were introduced to new technologies and adopted it eagerly. They also took on many attitudes of the whites.
The fur trade in ways was a perfect business agreement that both parties benefitted from.
Although the colonist learned much from the Indians and adopted certain customs, their objective was no to become like the Indians; they actually feared that. However, this fear and rejection of Indians means in a way allowed these settlers to become who they are, Americans.