From around 1500 to 1700, the European people were constantly trying to confiscate the American lands, which left the Native Americans feeling ambushed. The Native Americans were caught off guard because for the longest time they saw the land as if no one owned it, and it was there for everyone to use. Native Americans were more into sharing the land, whereas the Europeans were just there to buy it and capture it from them. The four main groups that captured the lands from the Natives were the Spanish, Virginians, New Englanders, and Pennsylvania. Although some people had conflicts with the Native Americans, each group had a different interaction with them, some of them leading into honorable relationships.
The Spanish were the first people to encounter the Native Americans. Throughout the 1500s and 1600s, the Spanish conquered Central and portions of North America. The Spanish chose a more violent style. They pushed their way into the Americas, and would kill, enslave, or change the cultural views of any Native American that stood in their way. When Hernando Cortes led an army into the American mainland, Tabasco, a strong Aztec empire, resisted the Spanish, but their rifles defeated the Aztecs. In 1520, the Aztec finally rebelled against the Spaniards’
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intrusion. Then in 1521, Cortes launched a counterattack, and the Spanish won when the Aztec force had been reduced because of diseases like smallpox or measles. Therefore, the Aztec surrendered after the burning of Tenochtitlan. The Spanish enslaved the natives, known as the encomienda, which forced them to farm, ranch, or mine for the landlords. In 1542, the encomienda was abolished, and in turn the Spanish used African slaves. The Spanish priests also tried to convert the natives which led to an even greater tension between the two. In 1588 England had defeated the Spanish Armada, ending Spain’s control of the Americas. The next people to encounter the Native Americans were the Virginians. In April of 1607, the Virginia Company’s three ships landed on the shores of Virginia. They named their settlement Jamestown and the river James in honor of their king. Unlike the Spanish, who intermarried with the Natives, the English followed the same laws they had followed when they conquered the Irish. The English viewed the Natives as being “wild like the Irish”, and they had no interest in living near or among them. The settlers never forgot Powhatan’s hostility during the starving time. To get back at him, the Jamestown leaders demanded corn and labor from the local native people. They set Powhatan’s villages on fire, and kidnapped hostages and children. One child that had been kidnapped was Pocahontas, who went on to marry John Rolfe in 1614. This set the stage for a short lived peace, but it ended when the colonists took over more of the Native American’s land for growing tobacco. In 1622, Powhatan sent out raid parties to colonial villages and ended up killing over 340 colonists. Then, in 1624, James I made Virginia a royal colony. Therefore, by 1644, almost 10,000 English people lived in Virginia, and the Powhatan population continued to decrease. After the Virginians, the New English Puritans came to North America beginning in 1620. Unlike the Virginian colonists at Jamestown, the New Englanders weren’t looking for profit. They wanted to make a model city, or a “City upon a Hill.” A while after arriving, disputes between the Native Americans and the Puritans came about over land use. To the Native Americans, no one owned the land, but it was there for all to share. However, the Puritans had a different view. They saw land treaties as a one time deal in which the Native Americans permanently gave them their land. For every acre that a colonial farmer needed to support life, a Native American needed twice that for agriculture, fishing, hunting and gathering. In 1637, the first major conflict came about in Connecticut when the Pequots took a stand against the colonists. The end of the Pequot war was in May 1637, but it ended in a destruction of the Pequot villages. The Puritans shot the men, women, and children as they were trying to run away and escape. During this, 500 or 600 people were brutally killed. The Native Americans felt deprived of their land. After the New Englanders, the Quakers came with William Penn to settle in Pennsylvania.
Unlike both New Englanders and Virginia, these settlers were interested in having a friendly relationship with the Native Americans. Penn saw his colony as a “holy experiment”, and that it wasn’t meant to be a land owning aristocracy. He wanted to have a representative assembly and freedom of religion. Penn believed that if people were spoken to with friendship, they’d respond the same way at some point. Penn regulated the colonists trade with the Native Americans because he wanted to make sure it was fair. William Penn’s colony was the only one that had not had any conflicts with the Native Americans for over 50
years. As clearly stated, each group of settlers is much different than the others. However three out of the four of the groups developed bad relationships with the Native Americans. They were taking advantage of the land, without even considering that the Native Americans had already settled there. That is where William Penn went right. He paid close attention to the feelings of the Native Americans and made sure not to treat them unjustly, and he, with his colony in Pennsylvania, was the only one to succeed without ruining a relationship with the Natives.
...y robbing the Indians of their land, the English upset and hurt many of the Native American tribes, which lead to many disputes over ownership of the land.
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Compare and Contrast Between Hispanic Culture and American Culture I. Introduction The Hispanic population has experienced incredible growth in the past decade in the United States of America. In 2006 it was estimated that the Hispanics cover 11% of the population in North America. Their origin is in Mexico and the few Spanish speaking countries in the Caribbean. American culture is derived from people who originated from the European nations like Italy and the Great Britain.
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It was common for the Americans to practice conquests. While the Native Americans were trying to coexist with their American counterparts and they were being forced into reservations during the following decades after the Civil War.During the altercation between the US government and the Native Americans, the government created the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1851. Even though the Native Americans Even though the Native Americans agreed to this treaty in the hopes of preserving their land, they were greeted with the depletion of their people and resources. As the book stated,” To Americans raised on theories of racial superiority, the Indians constituted, in the words of one Colorado militia major, ‘an obstacle to civilization’...” (Roark, p
Native Americans had inherited the land now called America and eventually their lives were destroyed due to European Colonization. When the Europeans arrived and settled, they changed the Native American way of life for the worst. These changes were caused by a number of factors including disease, loss of land, attempts to export religion, and laws, which violated Native American culture.