American is land of opportunity full of differences that help us unite as one, but in some cases, difference is the worst possible thing. In history Natives opened their arms to the English, and care for them kind of like a baby. They built them up and paved the way for them, just to then get stabbed in the back by the greed of the Puritans. The Natives and Puritans were different in the way that possession was seen in regards to land, resources, and America. As a result there was a rise of conflict. Natives and Puritans have used the same land, but had different goals in mind. A example in the text is, “Everything from just seizing them and then attending to legalities much,”(“After the Mayflower”). This shows that puritans wanted to, and …show more content…
Natives and Puritans see resources as benefits. Natives and Puritans also see resources as advancements, but Puritans like to have significantly more resources. As they got here they were met with several objects in their way. A quote to describe this is, “When the English arrive they find houses fallen to ruin, fields lying fallow, human bones bleaching in the sun that have been scattered by animals,”(After the Mayflower). This basically shows what the puritans started with when they arrived in america, it only went up from here as they got more comfortable with the native in a sense that they gave them a lot of resources and knowledge. The natives weren’t thinking that they would get turned on, but it actually ended up happening, resulted in puritans taking power. “The white people think we do not know their Value; but we are sensible that the Land is everlasting, and few Goods we receive for it are soon worn out and gone,”(Turner, 243). In this stage, the natives start to realize that the puritans were getting a little greedy when it came to resources. The land is full of resources, but eventually it will get used up, at rate the puritans wanted it. Through all of this the natives did eventually got a wake up call, but it was way too …show more content…
America was still in development, but puritans wanted a piece of the prosperity . A example in the text is, “The head was displayed in Plymouth, a reminder to the Indians about who was in charge,”(After the Mayflower). This shows that the puritans were superior because this statement really does show that the puritans are trying show that they run the show and they are in power. They hit them where it hurts because they used a head of someone that was native, someone that they knew. The natives loved america but were confused as to why puritans act the way they do. A example in the text is “Why will you take by force what you may obtain by love? Why will you destroy us who supply you with food?,”(Turner, 242). The Natives don’t want possession over America, they just want to live freely with ensured safety over themselves and family. They get confused when they get turned on because they did everything to help them, they wanted no conflict, they allowed them into america, so they seen the true colors and it ended really bad for the
To many of the English colonists, any land that was granted to them in a charter by the English Crown was theirs’, with no consideration for the natives that had already owned the land. This belittlement of Indians caused great problems for the English later on, for the natives did not care about what the Crown granted the colonists for it was not theirs’ to grant in the first place. The theory of European superiority over the Native Americans caused for any differences in the way the cultures interacted, as well as amazing social unrest between the two cultures.
When the colonists came to America, they classified the Native Americans as complete brutal savages. But was that a correct assumption? The Native Americans lived a life that was a complete opposite from the way that the Europeans were accustomed to. The Native Americans believed that the land was shared by everyone and not one person could own it. The Native Americans also had a polytheistic religion which completely went against the beliefs of the colonists. The colonists viewed the Native Americans as savages and barbarians because their ways of living were different.
In 1608, a group of Christian separatists from the Church of England fled to the Netherlands and then to the "New World" in search of the freedom to practice their fundamentalist form of Christianity (dubbed Puritanism). The group of people known as the Native Americans (or American Indians) are the aboriginal inhabitants of the Northern and Southern American continents who are believed to have migrated across the Bering land bridge from Asia around 30,000 years ago. When these two societies collided, years of enforced ideology, oppression and guerrilla warfare were begun. The great barriers of religion, ethics and world-views are the three largest factors which lead to the culture clash between the Puritans and the Native Americans.
The clash between the Native Americans and the colonists did not start off tumultuous. In the early days of the exploration and settlement of the New World they lived in peace. The Indians taught them how to farm and live off the land. In a strange land the colonists made an ally. However, the subsequent turn of events was inevitable. Perhaps the chaos that ensued could have been postponed but there was never going to be a peaceful cohabitation between the colonists and the indigenous people. There were so many vast differences between the religious views and ultimate goals of the two groups. The Native Americans had established trade relationships with various tribes, they had their own religions, and their way of life was a stark contrast to that of the colonists. The worldview of the respective peoples was foreign to the other and the idea of a holistic and unbiased approach to the life of others was foreign.
In the seventeenth century, the English and many other Eastern countries came to the “new land” for a vast amount of reasons. Many of these foreigners came for religious freedom, some to seek fortune, and others were convicts being deported. However, for those who came across the sea, there was one thing they were not planning to have conflict with when they arrived. The natives, or as the English called them “savages”, which were a distinction on how some viewed these natives, had made this land their home long before settlers came exploring. The differences in language, hierarchy, and society divided these two cultures. Living in the same region, the relationships between the natives and English varied among the East coast.
Although at first glance the arrival of the Puritans in America seemed solely for religious freedom, it actually was deeply embedded in economic trading opportunities. In 1629, the English crown authorized the colonization of a large area of New England by the Massachusetts Bay Company, which was a joint stock trading company. The company was taken over by a group of wealthy Puritans, and they successfully established the Massachusetts Bay Colony under the leadership of John Winthrop in the New World. The Puritans brought the company’s charter with them, which allowed them to bend the charter to their own purposes, transforming the company into a commonwealth.
Native Americans and Europeans were the begging of the new world. Their differences are more than similarities, whether by the religion, culture, race, and gender. Native Americans and European spoke two different languages, and lived in two different ways. The reason why Native Americans were called Indians, because when Columbus landed in America he thought that he was in India, so he called them Indians. Native American were nomadic people, some of them were hunter and some were farmers. Europeans were much more developed than Native Americans, and had more skills. Also, there were differences in holding positions between Native American women and European women. The cultural differences led to a bloody bottle
The Native Americans were referred to as “savages” and the English in their words expressed their fear of them. One could also take the Native Americans’ nature as being shy because upon the English spotting a few of them near the water they quickly ran away (Bradford 59). This was probably because the Native Americans had never seen anyone other than themselves. They were shown to be intelligent people who not only farmed but also built houses (Bradford 60). However, the English also implied the Native Americans to be mean people because they stated that one of the reasons for building large fires was to “…defend them from any sudden assaults of the savages” (Bradford 61). Nevertheless, it was not long until the Native Americans did attack the English and in their minds, it was for no reason. The recurring theme was that the English were always cautious of the Native Americans because they feared they would attack (Bradford 62).
Firstly, the Settlers have always throughout history hated the native Americans. A good example would be Christopher Columbus’s and Hernando Cortez’s treatment of the Indians. Columbus took back Indians as slaves to show that they found Asia so they could trade with them again. Trading with a people does not mean enslaving them and using them as labor later on. During the Pequot War white Settlers
The Europeans invaded America with every intention of occupying the land, the bountiful natural resources as well as the complete domination of the native people. The Europeans desire for the land created an explosive situation for the native peoples as they witnessed their land and right to freedom being stripped from them. They often found themselves having to choose sides of which to pledge their allegiance to. The Europeans depended upon Indian allies to secure the land and their dominance as well as trade relations with the Indians. The Indians were in competition with one another for European trade causing conflict among the different tribes altering the relationships where friends became enemies and vice versa (Calloway, 2012, p. 163). These relationships often became embittered and broke into bloody brawls where it involved, "Indian warriors fighting on both sides, alongside the European forces as well as against European forces invad...
The Native Americans were the earliest and only settlers in the North American continents for more than thousands of years. Like their European counterparts, the English colonists justified the taking of their territories was because the natives were not entitled to the land because they lacked a work ethic in which shows that the colonists did not understand the Native Americans system of work and ownership of property. They believed the “Indians seemed to lack everything the English identified as civilized” (Takaki, Pg. 33). Because the settlers were living far away from civilizations, to ensure that they were civilized people, the settlers had negative images of the Native Americans so that they would not be influenced and live like the how the natives do, ensuring that these groups are savages who are uncivilized. Many began to believe this was God’s plans for them to civilize the country in which many would push westward and drive the Indians out to promote civilization and progress. While the United States was still in its early stages of development,
The Puritan Dilemma is the story of John Winthrop growing up in the Puritan colonization of America. This book tells the reader of the events that Puritans had to go through during that time period. The book also talks about the attempts, both by John Winthrop and the Puritans, to establish a new type of society in the New World, something they couldn’t do in England. This story is told by the theology of the Puritan ideas, and focuses a lot on how their beliefs intervene in their daily lives, churches, and political ideologies. Puritanism was the belief that the Church of England should remove traditions that inherited from the Catholic Church, and make the Church of England more pure in Christ.
They Natives weren’t going to stand there and watch their civilization being drowned out by a group of settlers and colonists. Their people were being enslaved some being sold to the West Indies, others being put to work in farms and plantations. The Puritans were pushing out the Natives and moving into their land. They were chopping down their forests and building houses and factories. They were expanding their area because the King wanted to expand his Kingdom.
Throughout the years, textbook education has failed yet again. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, English, French and Spanish settlers’ relations with Native Americans were not always bad. Too often, people believe that Native Americans were evil and only did bad things to all other people that were not in their tribe. True education is knowing all of the facts. This essay will give all the true details about when Europeans first settled America.
Though the Puritans, as well as some later groups, fled to the American colonies to escape religious persecution or restrictions, the fact remains that the Puritans had been granted "a charter from King James" for their settlement. Thus, the colonists who came to America for religious reasons were serving the primary purpose of generating profits for the Mother country of England (Boorstin et al.