Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Exam 3
Ethan Brown
Honors History 10
Mr. Viles
Thesis Statement- Contact between native Americans and Europeans between the founding of Jamestown (1607) and the outbreak of the American revolution (1776) constituted a continuous cultural revolution for native people.
When the Europeans came over to North America they didn’t just bring ships, men, weapons, and a will to create a new civilization, they brought a change that caused a cultural upheaval for the native people.
One the changes of the Native Americans was influenced by the European people moving into their lands and claiming it as their own, every piece of the land was sacred to the Native people but the Europeans still kept taking more and more it either through diplomacy or force. This required the Native Americans to either become allies with the Europeans move or fight. This changed their culture immensely because a new people came into their lands and started to settle into where they lived and started asking them to leave the place that they found sacred.
When the Europeans came over they also brought epidemics that started doing damage to the Native Americans instantly. Over a short period of time over ninety percent of the Native American population was killed. The Native Americans were dreadfully vulnerable to these diseases such as small pox. These sicknesses were used in war against the Native Americans in years to come. This also changes their culture, because when everyone started dying around them they turned to their gods and witch doctors and they couldn’t do anything. They started questioning their religion when their gods couldn’t do anything, and they saw that the English didn’t have many casualties from the epidemic.
Some of the Native Americans conformed into the Christian belief either by choice or by force. Some Indians saved themselves from the English’s death sentence by accepting the Christian belief and had themselves sent to a nearby praying town. Others that refused were either killed or sold as slaves.
Many Native Americans learned from the English. The Indians learned a different way to farm, using plows and different assorted tools. They also learned how to use firearms. Earlier the Spanish taught them how to ride horses.
The Native American’s cultures altered a great deal when the Europeans came over, but still a large part of their cultures remained the same as before. Their pride fighting styles, religious beliefs, and their love of their land
Their fighting styles are one of the practices that the Indians kept in their culture, their guerrilla tactics in battles were unique to the English who prefer head on fighting the Indians like to set up ambushes and snipers to be able to take out a larger army with a smaller amount of soldiers.
The Native American’s love for land never changed throughout the ages. They see themselves as part of nature and that if their land was in danger of being taken from a different people, they must defend it. Their Religion is in their land, their ancestors had lived their and they had no intention of leaving it.
The Native Americans went all the way through a ton of terrible experiences but even through all of the turmoil their pride survived. It is the Native Americans pride that defines them, even being killed, sold as slaves, forced to change their religion, and used in war, their pride survived.
Honors History 10
Mr. Viles
Thesis Statement- Contact between native Americans and Europeans between the founding of Jamestown (1607) and the outbreak of the American revolution (1776) constituted a continuous cultural revolution for native people.
When the Europeans came over to North America they didn’t just bring ships, men, weapons, and a will to create a new civilization, they brought a change that caused a cultural upheaval for the native people.
One the changes of the Native Americans was influenced by the European people moving into their lands and claiming it as their own, every piece of the land was sacred to the Native people but the Europeans still kept taking more and more it either through diplomacy or force. This required the Native Americans to either become allies with the Europeans move or fight. This changed their culture immensely because a new people came into their lands and started to settle into where they lived and started asking them to leave the place that they found sacred.
When the Europeans came over they also brought epidemics that started doing damage to the Native Americans instantly. Over a short period of time over ninety percent of the Native American population was killed. The Native Americans were dreadfully vulnerable to these diseases such as small pox. These sicknesses were used in war against the Native Americans in years to come. This also changes their culture, because when everyone started dying around them they turned to their gods and witch doctors and they couldn’t do anything. They started questioning their religion when their gods couldn’t do anything, and they saw that the English didn’t have many casualties from the epidemic.
Some of the Native Americans conformed into the Christian belief either by choice or by force. Some Indians saved themselves from the English’s death sentence by accepting the Christian belief and had themselves sent to a nearby praying town. Others that refused were either killed or sold as slaves.
Many Native Americans learned from the English. The Indians learned a different way to farm, using plows and different assorted tools. They also learned how to use firearms. Earlier the Spanish taught them how to ride horses.
The Native American’s cultures altered a great deal when the Europeans came over, but still a large part of their cultures remained the same as before. Their pride fighting styles, religious beliefs, and their love of their land
Their fighting styles are one of the practices that the Indians kept in their culture, their guerrilla tactics in battles were unique to the English who prefer head on fighting the Indians like to set up ambushes and snipers to be able to take out a larger army with a smaller amount of soldiers.
The Native American’s love for land never changed throughout the ages. They see themselves as part of nature and that if their land was in danger of being taken from a different people, they must defend it. Their Religion is in their land, their ancestors had lived their and they had no intention of leaving it.
The Native Americans went all the way through a ton of terrible experiences but even through all of the turmoil their pride survived. It is the Native Americans pride that defines them, even being killed, sold as slaves, forced to change their religion, and used in war, their pride survived.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Sem. 2, Essay 2.
Ethan Brown
Mr. Viles Honors History
Abstract
The following paper will compare and contrast Plymouth and Jamestown. It will show that even though they came from the same country and culture they were different because their backgrounds and religions were different. This paper will use the following sources: 1. The Earth Shall Weep by James Wilson 2. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk 3. http://www.britannica.com 4. Classroom discussions from Mr. Viles' Honors History, 5. Homeschooling Information
Background of Jamestown
The settlers that founded Jamestown were a group of Englishmen who were on an expedition to start an English colony. Once they got to America one of the captains, John Smith, was elected as one of the seven men in the governing council. In December, 1607, Smith was captured by the Powhatan Indian tribe. He was going to be executed until the young Powhatan princess "Pocahontas" rescued him. She did this by putting her head upon his to prevent him from having his skull crushed . Smith was elected president of Jamestown in 1608. He also conducted military training and continued to secure corn from the Indians by compulsory purchasing the corn. One of the main purposes why Jamestown settlers were in America was to keep the Spanish, who were already in Florida, from expanding further into North America.
Background of Plymouth
A group of Separatists called the Pilgrims were the settlers of Plymouth Colony. This group was lead by a man named William Bradford. In England the Pilgrims had to hold their church services in secret; they were arrested and put in prison for it. The Pilgrims heard that the Dutch were lenient to dissen
ters so they immigrated to Holland in 1608.
In 1620 Bradford, John Carver, Edward Winslow, William Brewster, and other Separatists in Holland decided to immigrate to America. One hundred and two people boarded the Mayflower. After crossing the Atlantic they landed on Cape Cod and established a settlement in Massachusetts Bay. They named it Plymouth. John Carver was elected governor. The plan was to eat fish from the ocean, nevertheless by 1621, half of the people had died due mainly to starvation or disease. This included Bradford's wife who had drowned in the bay. John Carver died in 1621 and Bradford was elected governor.
Religions
Jamestown was in America for a commercial endeavor to profit English investors. This was unlike the Pilgrims who came to America to worship their God freely. Members of the Virginia Company and Jamestown settlers were members of the Anglican Church of England. If any were of Puritan persuasion, they were not Separatists and remained conforming members of the Church of England. The Jamestown settlers contained an Anglican minister who took part in communion after landing. When King James and King Charles were kings, England had a Puritan revolution. However, Jamestown remained loyal to the King and the settlers remained conforming members of the Anglican Church even as the church went through an intense change in England.
Plymouth's people came over because they were trying to escape the Anglican Church. The Pilgrims believed that the Bible was the true word of God and that the government should not interfere with their way of worship.
The main reason that Jamestown was established was to put a permanent English presence in America and to block off Spanish expansion. The reason that the Pilgrims came to America was that they wanted to worship God they way they wanted and still remain English. Because it was so important that their children did not take on Dutch culture and the Dutch language, they left Holland for America.
"Our greatest strength as a human race is our ability to acknowledge our differences our greatest weakness is our failure to embrace them." – Judith Henderson
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