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    San Antonio Missions and Assimilation In the following paper I will discuss the sources of Chapter 3; The Challenges of Spanish Colonization: Struggles and Accommodation in the Eighteenth Century‚ in the book Major problems in Texas History. The essay “Self-Sufficiency and the San Antonio Missions” by Gilberto Hinojosa‚ is the secondary source. This source differs from the primary sources in the chapter in that the author disagrees with what they say was the primary goal of the Franciscans. To elaborate

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    Native American and White Settlers Conflict In about the early 1800s‚ white settlers began to move west and they came to the Pacific Northwest‚ or what they called the Oregon Country. Native Americans and the white settlers had a lot of different ways of living. Some of these differences created conflicts between the two groups. I think that education‚ land ownership‚ and disease were the three main causes of their conflicts. Education was one of the problems that the Native Americans had with

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    America’s earliest English settlers came to the “New World” for a variety of reasons. Those reasons‚ along with other factors‚ affect how things were there and what its norms were. Those factors can be religion‚ ethnicity‚ beliefs‚ gender‚ the date‚ people‚ etc. But specifically religious and economic factors can determine how it all really works in a place. People stick to its own kind. Although we are all human‚ there are other aspects that bring people together. Religion‚ beliefs‚ ethnicity‚ interests

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    Although the settlers of the New England and Chesapeake region were both settled by people of English origin‚ by the 1700s‚ they had transformed into very different societies. This was because of a number of reasons. Between the settlers‚ the New Englanders moved for religious purposes‚ while Chesapeakes moved for want for material wealth.The people of New England also consisted of more families than the predominantly young male population of the Chesapeake. Their governing styles were also different

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    Risky Relations: A closer look at the relationships between Native Americans and European settlers during the seventeenth century At the start of the seventeenth century‚ Native Americans greeted European settlers with much excitement. They regarded settlers as strange‚ but were interested to learn about the new tools and weapons Europeans brought with them. The native people were more than accommodating to the settlers‚ but as time passed‚ Europeans took advantage of their generosity. “Once

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    Jackson D. Despite the overwhelming expectations for the eighteenth amendment to repair America and slay the problems plaguing it‚ people were crestfallen when the fingernail of austerity scraped away the gilded layer of the presumably hallowed doctrine‚ revealing the lead core that was the eighteenth amendment’s effects on the American society. In 1920 the U.S prohibited the sale and production of alcohol and the purpose of it was to lower crime rates‚ lower tax burden of prisons‚ solve social

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    Native American have suffered due to White Settlers. White Settles moved out west and then there was conflict with White settler and Native Americans. When the White Settlers moved westward‚ they started killing Buffalo and Native Americans had to depended on buffalo for food‚ clothing‚ and shelter. The movement started with farmers who drove the Cotton Kingdom toward the west. More individuals started to move out west alongside the Cotton Kingdom with expectations of discovering gold in California

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    In the late 19th centuryAmericans started settling in the West rapidly. Just like Americans‚ Indians had their way of things. Once Americans settled problems started to occur. The problems between them were how they both thought about land‚ thoughts on religion‚ and disease. These problems showed how the Native Americans and the white settlers interacted. The first difference in the way they interacted was how they thought about land. To the white settlers‚ owning land was extremely important

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    with Native Americans Read pages 261-267 Cultural differences between settlers and Native Americans often led to conflict between them. White settlers believed they could make better use of the land than Native Americans. The government took the side of the settlers and pushed the Native Americans into reservations to give settlers the land. Beliefs on land use and government strongly differed between Native Americans and settlers. Many settlers felt justified in taking Native American land for they

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    Native American Relations During the numerous years of colonization‚ the relationship between the English settlers and the Native Americans of the area was usually the same. Native Americans would initially consider the settlers to be allies‚ then as time passed‚ they would be engaged in wars with them in a struggle for control of the land. This process of friendship to enemies seemed to be the basic pattern in the majority of the colonies. When the English landed in Jamestown in 1607‚ the

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