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    Jamestown Dbq Analysis

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    Jamestown DBQ Imagine‚ leaving your life behind in hopes of a better and richer future‚ but in order to make it to your better future‚ you have to face years of hard tribulations and strenuous work. That was reality for the settlers of Jamestown in 1607‚ but why had so many colonists died in the early years of Jamestown? These English colonists arrived from their long journey across the pacific to the shores of the “new world” in the spring of 1607 and they were ready to start the first permanent

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    belief in the benefits of profitable trading Columbian Exchange – trans-atlantic flow of goods and people Joint-stock company – business owned by shareholders Indentured servants – slaves who are paid for a certain number of years Powhatan Confederacy / 1622 War – Powhatan established cool to trade with Jamestown / brother decided to attack Virginia settlers The Maryland Experiment – gave one person all the rights to Maryland -> Son of king of England Katherine Watkins – claimed to be raped by a

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    Indians?   9. What was the significance of Quetzalcoatl?   10. Compare the strategies and motives underlying the conquest of the Aztecs by  Cortez and the conquest of the Incas by Pizzaro.   11.What were the major causes of war between the Powhatans and the English  settlers?   12.Discuss the significance of Powhatan’s statement‚ “Why will you take by force  what you may have quietly by love?”   13. Explain Governor John Winthrop’s legal and biblical justification for seizing  Indian land

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    A Different Mirror

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    America’s envisioned past. Mr. Takaki confronts and disputes the Anglo-centric historical point of view. This dispute and confrontation is started in the within the seventeenth-century arrival of the colonists from England as witnessed by the Powhatan Indians of Virginia and the Wamapanoag Indians from the Massachusetts area. From there‚ Mr. Takaki turns our attention to several different cultures and how they had been affected by North America. The English colonists had brought the African

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    Since the discovery of the New World by European powers‚ the newly established European settlements on American soil varied from region to region. Two such regions were The Chesapeake and The New England regions. Although both were settled vastly by the English people the societies they formed were different. These differences were due to a few factors. The factors include motivation for migration‚ geography‚ social‚ political and economical structures of the settlements. These factors are what contributed

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    [1] Mohawk writer Beth Brant is on a mission‚ a mission to redeem the reputations of Powhatan princess Pocahontas and Cherokee Beloved Woman Nancy Ward. Touted as "good friends" of the whiteman in white legend because of actions complicit with white welfare‚ these two famous Native American women are simultaneously scorned as "traitors" to their race. In "Grandmothers of a New World" (1988‚ 1994)‚ Brant joins with such other redeemers as Hanay Geiogamah and Monique Mojica in combating white "history"

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    John Smith

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    Cited: Captain John Smith. n.d. 18 January 2013. <http://nativeamericanencyclopedia.com/captain-john-smith/>. Captain John Smith Chesapeake. n.d. 18 January 2013. <http://smith.npschesapeakebay.net/native-americans/indians-smith/smith-powhatan-pocahontas>. Trail‚ National Historic. Captain John Smith Chesapeake. n.d. 14 February 2013. "John Smith 1580-1631." The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 2012. 81-99.

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    English-Indian Relations

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    land for the English for crops like tobacco‚ which he made into an economically viable product. He improved the relations so much that he married Pocahontas‚ the daughter of the Powhatan chief. After he left the relations began to turn for the worse when the English began to want more and more land from the Powhatans. When the English landed at Plymouth‚ they were on their own for a short period of time‚ and didn’t fare very well‚ losing 45 people over the first winter. In the early spring

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    Test 1 Study guide essays

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    30 (Matching & True False‚ 2pts each) Mercantilism Reconquista Miles Standish George Whitefield Metacom’s War Edward Braddock Henry Hudson Puritans Roger Williams Hernan Cortez Atahualpa Jacques Cartier Christopher Columbus Powhatans Squanto Elizabeth I James Oglethorpe Maryland Georgia John White John Smith Jamestown St Augustine Roanoke Ponce de Leon Great Awakening Quakers Enlightenment Glorious Revolution Middle Passage Anne Hutchinson Bacon’s

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    AP® UNITED STATES HISTORY 2008 SCORING GUIDELINES Question 2 Early encounters between American Indians and European colonists led to a variety of relationships among the different cultures. Analyze how the actions taken by BOTH American Indians and European colonists shaped those relationships in TWO of the following regions. Confine your answer to the 1600s. New England Chesapeake Spanish Southwest New York and New France The 8–9 Essay • Contains a clear‚ well-developed thesis that addresses

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