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.