...war with Spain and France, the English didn’t have a good relationship with the Native Americans, and the earlier English colonies didn’t do so well. During the 115-year span, England was at war with Spain and France. England was a Protestant country and Spain was a Catholic country. That led to conflict between the two countries because Spain wanted to make England Catholic. In addition to religious differences, war broke out starting with Sir Francis Drake stealing lots of money and ships from Spain from 1577 to 1580. This made King Philip II very mad causing him to build an army. This army, the Spanish Armada, who were sent out in 1588 to destroy England. However, the Spanish lost quickly. England and France fought wars between them in each other during this time. These wars were called the Anglo-French wars. In all, there were...
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...Over the course of 7 years (1689-1697), the tension between between France, Spain and England grew and caused the first worldwide war; in order to gain control over the West Indies, Canada and the trade in the English colonies.The Native Americans were being driven away because the English needed more land for plantations and ports. King William’s War, was provoked because the English were expanding rapidly and the Natives were being pushed out and weren't strong enough to fight against the Europeans because they lacked the weapon technology and they also had suffered a demographic change due to illness. The Natives who were supplied by the French, burned down English settlements. The English corresponded with what is called Queen Anne’s War, winning Nova Scotia and trading rights in Spanish America. The third and last war was King George’s War when they beat France, obtaining Louisburg, then exchanging it for economic gains in India, which made the Colonist furious. After the French-Indian war, the relationship between English and the Colonist shifted because of the enforced taxation and...
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...Associate Level Material Appendix A Clash of Cultures Complete the grid by describing the characteristics listed in the left-side column for the five groups named. | |Native Americans |Northern Colonists |Mid-Atlantic Colonists |Southern Colonists |West Africans | |Political Structure|There’s a chief of the tribe, who |More involved with trade and |Make money and establish trade |Had their own government. The |Had well-developed system of | | |would have consultants. |industry |zones. |colonists had meetings they wanted|religious beliefs | | | | | |to talk about issues, interests, | | | | | | |or laws. | | |Social System |The elders are the wisest and most| well-drawn social lines; birth |Had varied lifestyles and |Rested on the great planters and |There were 230,000 people working | | |respected. |and pedigree counted for less |participated in many different |the yeoman...
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...economy of the Tribe was less than stellar, as their precious shells appeared to be nothing more than shells. Evaluate: Powhatan’s placement at the center of the cloak may have fostered conflict with the Europeans, because the colonists desired to claim...
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...The colonists’ incentives were riches and gold, as well as potentially spreading Christianity and possibly finding a trade route to China. Many dangerous obstacles such as warships were ahead, which could lead to failure like the previous unsuccessful settlement of Roanoke Island. While the colonists were expecting lots of land filled with gold, the Powhatan Indians were already living along the coast of Jamestown. The English settlers built a fort known as Jamestown, but unfortunately over half the settlers ended up dying. More colonists, most young and poor, came with the desire of working off their debt. They produced the...
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...Early Jamestown: Why Did So Many Colonists Die? Suppose you have to live in an infested, uncommon, and to you an inhabitable land. You come with 100 other men, some dressed in cloth, some dressed in rages. How would the relationship be between you, the environment, unknown aliens, and your “companions?” The spring of 1607, three English ships with a hundred passengers came across the Atlantic, through the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, and up the James River. Their intention was to create the first permanent English settlement in the “New World”, teach the ways of Jesus Christ to the Native peoples, find a trade route to China, and gather riches. Though only in the first few years of this “permanent” settlement, it started to parish. People...
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...However, a Native American tribe known as the Pamunkeys among, whom they settled with was very familiar with the fawn and fauna of the land and also aware of the opportunities and dangers posed by the European presence. Roanoke was the very first English colony in North America. It was later abandoned twenty years before Jamestown's founding. However some of the settlers made their way to Chesapeake Bay, historians credit this move with the Pamunkey’s transatlantic knowledge. There are earlier reports from Roanoke published in 1590 that depict some of John White's paintings of the...
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...10 men originally settled in Early Jamestown, but by the end of the first winter only 40 survived. The English came to America in 1607 to be the first permanent English settlement in the New World. They settled in a place that they soon called Jamestown, Virginia and the joint stock company called The Virginia Company, helped pay for the settlement. All of the first settlers were men and by then end of the first six months, 80 percent of them died. Early Jamestown was a colony of English settlers in America that lasted from the years 1607-1611. Something that puzzles historians is how many colonists died in Early Jamestown. Many colonists in Early Jamestown died because of environmental issues, their relationships with Native Americans and their lack of settler skills. The first reason why so many settlers in Early Jamestown died was because of the environmental issues. Brackish water was the only water made available to the settlers in Jamestown. Brackish water contains salt and is not sanitary to drink. You could drink and drink this water but never get hydrated from it. Diseases and bad health resulted...
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...English relocated to North America for promises of new beginnings, wealth, and religious freedom. The Virginia Company had funded the operation under a charter from King James 1 hoping for promising returns on their investment. The new colonists bright and hopeful settled in Jamestown, Virginia only to find nightmares instead of dreams. The conditions for the new colonists exploited a rising tension that would soon escalate into a famous revolt called Bacon's Rebellion. Jamestown was to be the new Promised Land for the English settlers. It was surrounded by water, which would provide protection and allow for mass trading due to the opportunity to install several ports. As such, the Virginia Company believed the expedition would be profitable and King James 1 saw an opportunity to convert the savages to Christian religion, which would make settling much easier since the heathens would be no more. Many of the settlers were not accustom to getting their hands dirty and came only to find gold and wealth quickly and easily. The tobacco industry became Jamestown's wealth, which required many hard working laborers. They were called indentured servants and promised land after seven years of hard work. In addition, many of the new colonists succumbed to malaria, dysentery, and unbearable working conditions. The women were subjected to sexual abuse along with harsh emotional and physical treatment. Furthermore, many of the women had perished even before arriving, which...
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...Relations between Indians and English Colonists were anything but docile. Neither side was solely at fault. Both the Indians and the colonists held a violent nature with one another. The tensions started to boil increasingly as settlers encroached more and more onto claimed Indian lands. The actions taken by both sides shaped the relationships in a negative way. Some tribes and settlers formed alliances between small tribes and towns; however, the majority of the relationships were murderous. Prior to the French and Indian war, hundreds and hundreds of innocent American Indians were killed, among them women and children. Each region, New England, Chesapeake, Spanish Southwest, New France and New York proved to deal with different issues than a neighboring region. The settlers were not the only violent offenders. American Indians attempted to hold their ground, and a number of tribes even attacked English Colonists. Not only was there violence but many other factors contributed, including religion. Actions committed by both sides shaped the relations in different ways for different regions. New England relations with American Indians Initially, the relations between colonists in New England and the coastal Indians were friendly. The Indians offered a helping hand to the colonists. As the Englishmen were developing their colonies, the Indians helped shape the economy. Settlers were eager to move off the coast and more inland. When the settlers pushed farther and farther inland...
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...source of water supply, developed impurities from the high tides, which lead to diseases. By the end of December, 40 of the 110 settlers were still remaining. But did not only die from the droughts and impure water, so, why did so many colonists die? Colonists...
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...Great Britain and the American colonists had many conflicts throughout the 1700s that eventually lead to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The multiple wars, the unfair taxes, and the horrible acts that the colonists had to deal with have helped shaped America today. Starting in 1753 and ending in 1763, the French and Indian War was the beginning of the end for Britain and the colonists. It all started in the 1740s, when British settlers, who were looking for farmland, moved into the Ohio River Valley. Previously, this land was claimed by France; however, Britain also claimed the territory as their own. In early 1753, France began building forts between the Ohio River Valley and Lake Erie. This frightened the Virginia Company, so they sent George Washington, a young surveyor in the militia, to order the French to leave.The French refused to leave, causing a major dispute between the two countries. Washington was...
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...White and approximately 115 colonists left Britain to establish one of the first colonies in the New World. The colony was established on Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina. Today, the Roanoke Colony is often referred to as the “Lost Colony,” due to the mysterious disappearance of the colony’s residents. Centuries later, historians are still perplexed by this infamous settlement. Although there is no definite explanation of what became of the Roanoke Colony, the most accepted and likely theory is that the colonists integrated into the local Native American tribes. In 1584, Queen Elizabeth I granted Sir Walter Raleigh a charter to explore and eventually establish a colony in North America. The first expedition involved establishing relationships with the Croatoan Native Americans on Roanoke Island. The second expedition was led by Sir Richard Grenville; the goal was to formally set up a permanent colony. However, due to violent encounters with Indian...
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...In the article “The Native Americans of New England” published in 1637, Thomas Morton portrays Native American life in great detail in the perspective of an English colonist. His accounts offer historians insight into the habitats of the Native Americans in the 1600’s. Though most of the article features falsely portrayed opinions, it does allow us to see the lifestyles of the Native Americans. Bartolome de las Casas writes about the treatment of Indians in his book History of the Indies published in 1528. He offers a different angle on how the Spanish dealt with Native Americans. He reflects on the years that the Spanish used Native American slaves allowing historians a glimpse of the conditions of the Indians. Having Thomas Morton’s work...
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...From the start of relations between American Indians and the English there had always been differences that would eventually lead to misunderstandings, conflict, and wars. The issues between the American Indians and the English in the early seventeenth century can be boiled down to essentially just a few things; Raw cultural differences, religion, trade, and land. These differences would ultimately be chalked up as probably the worst relationship in American history, not to mention it would also lead to the near extinction of the American Indians. Who would have ever thought that this relationship started out as a mildly healthy one. In the beginning, 1607, when the english settlers arrived in present day Virginia nobody had the intentions of wiping out an entire civilization. In fact, all they really sought out for was to save their own country. The English at the time had a serious problem with overpopulation and a linked crumbling economy.The solution to their problem was to send over large numbers of...
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