Some Indian merchants had realized that these trades were unfair so only sold good furs for what they believed was goo manufactured goods. Though there weren’t disputes between the French and the Indians, land disputes would break out between the Indians over hunting grounds. This trade made for a far less stressful relation between the French and the indigenous people of the ‘New World’. Trade did have its faults for the Indians. Disease brought with the French quickly killed many Natives because they didn’t have any immunes built up.
They had no decent terrain to grow crops and the Native Americans were hostile to some colonists. It seemed that things were just not going to go right for them. Then, when the Native Americans accepted the colonists and gave them their own land, the colonists formed the thirteen American Colonies. But, the colonies were still oppressed under the king’s rule. This made almost every American upset, almost to the point of revolt, but
The English believed that the Native Americans were not making the land yield enough fruit and this perceived shortcoming caused the natives to forfeit their right to the land. From this mindset the English decided that they would not make slaves of the Indians but give the Native Americans an “opportunity to work, to pay taxes to the commonweal, to become Christian, and to learn how to make the land more productive-so that they would ultimately be better off than they were before (p. 36).” Despite the “Christian- sentiments” of the colonists, cruelty in colonial America raged. After failing to cultivate the land properly, the English colonists were desperate for food. Although they could have traded with the natives for food, “President” John Smith decided that the colonists would go into the native villages and take the
FEB 6 2014 Slavery and Frontiers Mississippi 1720-1835 Slavery in Mississippi has a very interesting beginning in the state. The indigenous people of the region did practice slavery to some extent. The Native Americans however did not use the same practices of the Europeans. The Europeans maintained slavery for its means of profitability but the native Americans only had slaves as a luxury. The Indians did not really differentiate the Europeans and the slaves that they brought with them to the newly discovered lands.
After the conquest and through the declined of the natives surrounding their overworked and poorer conditions, Spaniards did but little to care at the expense of their wealth. Bartolome de las Casas and the New Laws reduced this labor system which angered in part the encomenderos who through civil wars and lack of heirs had their encomiendas reverted to the crown. The repartimiento/mita which is a labor draft within the Inca Empire was changed to a forced labor draft for the Spaniards in order to mine, obraje labor, and agricultural surplus. Negatively speaking, it was an easy faster way to make Spaniards rich. Natives were used to a monetary system and were unconsciously willing to work in order to meet this new type of payments.
The nature and traditional spirits were worshiped by the West Africans. The West Africans also had beliefs in a superior God and an admired God. “Some West Africans practiced the Islam religion and voodoo in secret, but unlike the world in which we live now, the Native Americans and the West Africans were at times forced to convert to Christianity or suffer punishment as severe as death” (Eyewitness to History, 1999). The relationship between the Native Americans and the white settlers did start of good, but the English became selfish and only wanted additional tobacco farms. The white settlers were the worst at farming, so the natives became the first resort of survival.
Consequently they became unhappy when the British settlers arrived and wanted to claim the land as Britain’s. Since they already had dominion and power over the native black Africans, and they didn’t want to share this power. Fortunately for
In a time where religious choice was not an option, and laws were strict, the New World could not have been discovered at a better time for Europeans. After the few established colonies began to settle into their new and unfamiliar territories in America, tensions between the native people and the new colonists began to erupt. Quarrels, uprisings, and bloody battles spread across the colonies like fire. A little later on, the same battles were going on between African slaves and their rights for emancipation. Such tensions and violence encouraged colonists and people in general to question who they were and who they wanted to be in this new world.
Early Europeans Have the Right Idea About Natives? Europeans were not correct in their assumptions about the “savagery” of Indians. In fact the Indians may have been ahead of their time and if anything they were simply different in their civilizations compared to the Spanish and English. The Indians were sophisticated people who knew how to efficiently use their resources and land without leaving a trail of destruction in their path. The Europeans may have thoDidught of the Indians as savages and seen as them very different than themselves because of some fundamental differences in their attitudes, as well as some societal advances and practices that were completely foreign to the Indians.
Many reasons for the rebellion are suggested by Metcalf and Metcalf (100-101). The ethnic discrepancy between the British officers and their Indian troops was a major cause of the growing discontent among the Bengal Army. Sepoys were unsatisfied with being deployed in Burma, and officials reacted by requiring sepoys to serve wherever posted. Meanwhile, troops felt they were undercompensated. It was widely rumoured that the new rifle was greased with pig or cow fat, and loading rifles required biting the end off