HW #1 “Response to Pgs. 68-157” After reading chapters 4 through 7 of ‘American Colonies’ by Alan Taylor there were two distinct topics that caught my eye during my readings. These two topics were the Pueblo Revolt, which took place between the natives and the Hispanics, and also the establishment of Jamestown by the English. The Pueblo Revolt occurred in 1680 and was the result from decades of mistreatment of the Pueblos by the Spaniards. The Pueblos complete way of living had been controlled and dominated by the Spaniards for a tiresome span of over eight decades. The Spaniards were in control of the Pueblos mainly because they had installed so much fear into them that the Pueblos were afraid to retaliate. “They provided a military reserve needed to intimidate the Indians…”(Taylor 86). But they eventually had enough years of torment that they decided to just come together as one and take over by causing the Spaniards to flee and also killing off some of them as well. The second topic that stood out to me was the establishment of Jamestown by the English colonist. After the new King James I succeeded Queen Elizabeth in 1603 and after a peace treaty with Spain was signed in 1604, “the great merchants and lawyers of London took a new interest in colonizing Virginia” (Taylor 130). King James granted a group of London investors a charter to go ahead and colonize and govern Virginia. They set out for Virginia from England in three vessels and decided to take the standard circle route southwest, “via the trade winds to the Canaries, westward to the West Indies, and then north with the Gulf Stream to Virginia. They arrived to Chesapeake Bay on April 26,1607 and established the new settlement of Jamestown about sixty miles down the James River by a marsh on the north bank. They decided to call the river James and the settlement Jamestown so that they could