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    Conflicts Between New Settlers and Native Population Early English settlers viewed the native populations as little more than savages and a primitive people that were inferior to them. The English believed that‚ since they were an inferior people‚ their land could be taken and claimed for the English so that they could continue to expand and settle new areas and mire towns and villages. In this Essay I aim to Explain the views of the colonists about the native populations as well as the views

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    “Don’t be a settler‚ get rid of cable and upgrade to Direct TV.” This phrase in the “The Settlers: Satisfaction” ad makes viewers question if they are not getting the most out of life. This ad begins in a regular urban neighborhood with one old time farm house situated in the middle. The family shown are old fashioned people who live off the land. The mother asks the father why they don’t switch to Direct TV. The father insists they are settlers and‚ since they are settlers‚ it means they can ‘settle’

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    Imagine you an Native American working around your house just peacefully doing what you have to do. Then you see some settlers walking on your land with a gun ordering you out of your land. If you were that Native American what would you do? Native Americans once had all their land and were living peacefully then they signed a piece of paper and lost it all and got moved away. Then settlers and miners kept on taking and taking and taking their land away from them breaking the paper the Natives signed

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    When the Europeans and African settlers arrived to North America‚ they were welcomed with an abundance of untouched resources readily available for the settlers personal use. The settlers would take advantage of this opportunity and would claim the resources immediately. Capital that would grab the interest of the settlers would be land‚ wood‚ indigenous species‚ and mineral resources. Settlers saw these resources as an opportunity to increase personal wealth and took advantage of what they had available

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    The relationship between the puritan settlers and the native Americans changed overtime between 1620 and 1676. In 1620‚ when the first Puritan settlers arrived on the mayflower‚ the two groups were apprehensive to meet each other. When they first truly met‚ they made agreements with each other. One group of natives‚ the Wampanoags‚ had a strong bond with the settlers. The group effectively saved the pilgrims from starvation and other hostile tribes. The Pilgrims and the Wampanoags had a strong bond

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    land. The case between the Native Americans and the European settlers was no different. Europe was becoming overpopulated which prompted brave individuals to venture across the Atlantic Ocean to claim land in the New World. Their claim of land became an issue as the land was already occupied by the Natives. More settlers came and eventually colonies sprung up‚ which proceeded to push the Natives westwards from their land. Assaults on the colonists by Native Americans to defend their way of life resulted

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    European Women’s Fashion in the Eighteenth Century (The Rococo Era) Fashion has been always been a dominate part within every society throughout the years. Fashion is “a prevailing custom or style of dress‚ etiquette‚ socializing‚ etc.” and “conventional usage in dress‚ manners‚ etc.‚ especially of polite society‚ or conformity to it” (“fashion”). When it comes to fashion‚ Europe happens to be the most influential continent. For centuries‚ Europe has always been fashion-forward‚ influencing many

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    viewed prosperity as having the most political influence while English saw it as having more available commodities but both took on the same attitude in order to achieve it. From the very beginning it was evident how different Native Americans were from English settlers. One particular difference‚ land use‚ indirectly caused a huge divide in how each group obtained fortune. This difference lead to a difference in how each defined property which finally lead to a difference in how one used that property

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    The evolution of smuggling from the small scale illicit trade of the seventeenth century to the multi-million pound business of the eighteenth century was compounded by several factors. The first of which was the sheer number of people involved in smuggling‚ whole communities including those in the elite classes were said to be actively or passively engaging in and profiting from smuggling in one way or another. The state’s initial dismissal of smuggling as being restricted to a minority of people

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    Those living in the American colonies in the seventeenth century faced many challenges. These tensions of political‚ social‚ religious and economic natures came from abroad and within. Influences of the political and economic nature from abroad onto the established American colonies shifted the shape and nature of the colonies; whereas‚ the social and religious tensions from abroad tended to create new colonies. The Quakers‚ for instance‚ were a group of English Protestants who left England in

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