American And European Settlers

Everything started with Mexico wanting to populate Texas after a recent war they had gone through (the Mexican War for Independance). Their government did everything they could to entice settlers (mainly offering land by the bulk), by 1834 more than two hundred thousand American settlers migrated to Texas. Now, one would usually think that Mexico had everything they asked for, but it just caused more problems. Eventually Americans outnumbered the natives, which only made them think that they could abuse their right to be within that community. Originally, settlers were supposed to follow the Mexican law, rather than American, but as time went on they merely tossed it aside. ”We cannot trust the Anglo-American colonists because they are continually

- Early settles and colonists had a variety of reasons to seek a new home. They valued spiritual self-discipline and wanted to escape religious persecution. Coming to America, colonists craved religious freedom. Eventually this bringing together of people of common religions formed colonies and this became appealing to those still living in England who didn’t have religious freedom. Colonists gained purpose in practicing their religion and continue their work in American for a better, self-sustained, progressive new life. Other colonies were founded on the principle of business ideas and endeavors. The great success that England had a colonizing the US was mostly because of the use of charter companies, groups of stockholders (wealthy merchants/landowners),

After the “Seven Year War” between Britain and France, Britain had to find new ways to finance its massive empire after obtaining territories from France. However, this caused tensions between the colonies in the North America and Britain began to rise. One of the measures that the British employed was the “Writs of Assistance” which was meant to stop American merchants from trading goods with France. Then the “Sugar Act” was enforced in 1764 to raise revenue to protect, defend and secure North America. Then by 1765, the “Stamp Act” was passed in order to make the colonists pay as much taxes as the British to help them get out of their financial crisis. Through 1766-1770 the colonists began to resist the British Empire because of how they

The infectious diseases that were introduced by the British settlers were an immediate consequence which caused the Aboriginal population to decrease dramatically. The Aborigines had no sort of contact with the diseases brought therefore their bodies couldn’t development an immune or adapt to them. The most common epidemic diseases spread drastically and killed many people. These diseases included the chickenpox, smallpox and measles. The Aborigines were even reported by the British saying they were exterminated in Tasmania showing how devastating the diseases impacted them.

The early colonists started policing when they first arrived in America and had established colonies. April of 1631, in Boston, the townspeople volunteered to watch the city at night (Early Days of…). These watchmen would patrol the night trying to catch criminals. If criminals were spotted, the watchmen would scream and set off alarms to raise awareness to the townspeople. In smaller places, the governor would appoint sheriffs to watch over the colony at night. The sheriffs were appointed to watch the town instead of volunteers because of the small number of people in the

According to Peggy Baker, of the Pilgrim Hall Museum, the fur trade between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans began sometime around 1625. The Pilgrims were in enormous debt with investors in Europe and needed money to repay this debt. They knew that one of the best ways to make the money was through fur trade and they knew the best furs to trade were beaver furs. However, the beavers were in Maine with the American Indians. Hence, the Pilgrims began the fur trade with the Native Americans. The Native Americans would hunt the beaver and trade the fur with Europeans for goods such as grain, cooking pots, tools, clothing, and blankets. As the fur trade continued throughout America, the impact on the Native Americans began.

The settlers who arrived in New England were Puritans, people who wanted to worship God in a very simple way. They escaped from England to be able to worship God as they liked, and to recreate a new pious England, which could be considered as a New Jerusalem or as a “City upon a Hill”. Consequently, their government reflected these ideas.

It was the year 1620 when People from England boarded ships to America to find religious freedom. Bad weather blew their ship off course and they found themselves on Cape Cod, in what is now called Massachusetts. They declared their intention to create fair and equal laws that would be the basis for a democratic government. They emphasized that the laws would be made for the greater good of all.

After the readings and discussions this week on Native Americans, the information conflicts with my previous knowledge.

Great observation, the relationship between the French and Native American of the early colonization were very successful. Therefore, both sides needed each other in order to exchange their goods in order for survival. At first, the Native Americans were receptive to the French building their colonies because they viewed the French as partners and they would protect them against other Native Americans. As we learned in the text, “that the support to the Huron tribes in their efforts against the confederated tribes of the Mohawks and Iroquois (Reich, 2011, p. 37). However, the French tried to impose their culture onto the Native Americans by trying to convert them to Christianity. In fact, the Indians were not too keen on this idea and as

Early 1600s set the time period for European settlements with massive immigration mainly from Europe and Africa. New World exploration, trade, and settlement connected the peoples of Europe, Africa, and the Americas through commerce and labor coercion. The trade of goods among the three worlds continually grew along-with migration to the Americas. The crops such as tobacco produced in the southern colonies, specifically Maryland and Virginia, contributed to the development of commerce between the worlds connected by the Atlantic. This led to the increase in demand for labor in the Americas. The Native Americans initially provided the labor for the production of goods in the southern colonies. But, with constant evolving trade and the

European colonizers had many effects, mostly negative, on the Native Americans they encountered when they came to the New World. Two of the specific effects that they had on Native American people were acculturation, also known as ethnocide, and genocide. The European settlers came into America claiming it as their own and used the Native Americans until they were no longer useful for their survival in the New World. Once they deemed the Native Americans to be savages, they forced them to assimilate into European cultural ideals and if they refused, they were ultimately killed. Ethnocide is defined as “the violent eradication of an entire group’s collective cultural identity as a distinctive people” (Newlander 2018).

As children and students we were taught that the Legendary Christopher Columbus founded America. However history has proven that this alleged discovery is far from the truth. Not only had the Spanish already settled Florida, but the Native Americans also known as Indians have already inhabited America. From this awareness of “New Found Land” English settlers intruded on Native American land and took over America under what was called manifest destiny. In the 19th century United States, Manifest Destiny was a belief that was widely believed that the true destiny of American settlers was to expand and move across the continent to spread American traditions and their institutions, along with enlightening more primitive nations, also known as the Indians. This destiny clearly was accomplished and today almost 240 years later there have been many laws and administrative law cases that has aroused from the accomplishment of Manifest Destiny in regards to Native Americans.

America--a promising land for the European settlers was a home to many Native Americans tribes. Slowly, as settlers migrated to the U.S, they began to expand into lands owned by the Native Americans for hundreds of years back. Before the civil war, Native Americans had initially welcomed European settlers as they believed in sharing the land with the newcomers. They would help the settlers in their travel across the plains by providing supplies and expert advice on location. In return, European settlers introduced horses and weapons to the Native Americans tribes to which they were very grateful.

The colonization and exploration of North America unavoidably lead to contact with the native people of the land. The images created by people like Benjamin West, Thomas Kitchen, and James Wooldridge show the effect that contact had on America. For example, Treaty with the Indians is an oil painting by Benjamin West that depicts the colonists and William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania, negotiating a treaty with the American Indians during the late years of British colonization. Benjamin West also painted The Indians Delivering up the English Captives to Colonel Bouquet Near his Camp at the Forks of Muskingum in North America in November 1764, which shows American Indians transporting English prisoners to Colonel Bouquet, an officer in the British army, during the French and Indian War. Another artist, James Woolridge, painted Indians of Virginia, which illustrates American Indians living on their homestead in 1675 during early British colonization of North America. Thomas Kitchen created A Map of the French Settlements in North America which shows the territories owned by the French a few years before Seven Years War and during the time when British colonization had heightened. European colonists’ opinions of citizenship rights and the rightful occupation of North America was heavily influenced by their interactions with the American Indians and their culture through manifested stereotypes and an understood element of European superiority.