Abstract
This paper describes the differing beliefs and outlooks of the Native Americans versus the European Colonists in the early 1600s. This author evaluates their differing views on such topics as technology, religion, the environment, women's rights, and slavery. The paper gives an honest appraisal of both sides' views and prejudices about the other. The author concludes that these base differences between the two sets of peoples, the Europeans and the Native Americans, were what sparked the distrust held by both nations that endured for hundreds of years.

From the Paper
"The European colonists and the Native Americans of North American had very different views on nearly everything they encountered in their lives. Living in vastly different cultures lead both groups to generally have two extremely different outlooks on four main topics; religious beliefs, the environment, social relations, and slavery, differences which the colonists used this to their advantage when conquering the peoples of the New World."

Tags:prejudice, Native, Americans, Colonists, 1600's, technology, religion, environment, women's, rights, slavery, war

Abstract
The paper provides some background on the life of Samuel Adams and on the events that led up to the American Revolution. The paper discusses the document that Samuel Adams wrote, entitled "The Rights of the Colonists" that basically laid down all the rights that Samuel Adams believed that colonists were entitled to. The paper notes that this document played a very important role in America's freedom.

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"Samuel Adams was born in Boston, Massachusetts in September of 1722. He was a leader in the fight against British colonial rule, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Adams' father, who was a deacon of the church and successful brewer, played an important role in Boston politics. When Samuel had been a young man, the royal government had ruled the senior Adams' investments illegal. This ruined him financially and is thought to have been the cause of Samuel's animosity toward and opposition to colonial authority (Samuel Adams American Patriot & Politician, 2008).
"Adams was a very vocal opponent of several of the laws that had been passed by the British Parliament to raise revenue in the American Colonies. By the year 1773, Adams and his Boston associates had pressured England into rescinding all these measures but one, the Tea Act. The Tea Act allowed the British East India Company a monopoly on the sale of tea to the colonies, and included a tax paid to the British crown. The opposition reached its peak on December 16, 1773 when a group of Bostonians dumped a British cargo of tea into Boston Harbor. This well known act of resistance is called the Boston Tea Party (Samuel Adams American Patriot & Politician, 2008)."

Tags:Stamp, Act, Boston, Tea, Party, American, Revolution

Abstract
This article looks at the meeting of the two different cultures of the Puritan colonists and the Native Americans. The writer states that in order to understand how the Indian tribes and the colonial settlers interacted, one firstly has to understand something about the basic differences of culture and attitudes between the two different groups. One of the most important facts with regard to Native American cultures, one which many people do not realize, is that there was no Indian national unity. Rather the Indian tribes were essentially separate and went their own way; with many differences in social customs and perceptions between the different tribes. The writer describes that this explains much of the confusion and misunderstanding that took place when the two cultures met. This is especially true when it comes to the reaction of the white settlers who often saw the Indian tribes as a unified threat against their existence.

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"On the other hand there was a very different cultural perspective from the settler's point of view. The white colonists were used to thinking in terms of national and social unity. They therefore tended to assume that the Native Americans were a unified threat and were therefore suspicious of the Indian tribes. Therefore many Native Americans would encounter hostility and fear when they first met the colonists that would also create a sense of uncertainly and suspicion among the Indians.
A further aspect that would have influenced the relationships and contacts between the two groups was the idea of private property. Generally the Native Americans did not have a concept of private property, but rather believed in sharing what they had with others. The colonists, being unaware of this different attitude, would have been suspicious and would have feared that their property was in danger."

Tags:native, culture, Christian, religion

Abstract
This paper looks at the dominance of religion in the lives of early northern colonists of what would later become the United States of America. It focuses primarily on the migration of Puritans from England and the transfer of their cultural idiosyncrasies. It then charts the progression of religion from Puritanism to other forms of Christianity within this area.

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"The Puritan exodus was typified by middle-class nuclear families, able to pay their own way and 'on a divine mission to create a model society committed to the proper worship of God. ' Many left England to escape the political unease and the imminent civil war and also religious persecution from the Anglican Church towards Puritans. Indeed 'religion was mentioned not merely as their leading purpose but as their only purpose' for leaving England and settling in New England. Those arriving on the shores of the 'Bible Commonwealth' of Massachusetts Bay from the 1630s had been refined from English society and were 'honest men...godly men...and not of the poorer sort.'"

Tags:christianity, church, connecticut, massachusetts, puritanism, quakers

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The paper explains that, among the many stories, truth or fiction, Smith places Pocahontas on a pedestal by explaining that had it not been for her, the Virginia colony may have perished ?from death, famine and utter confusion". The author points out that all of the praise for Pocahontas, the first Christian ever of the Powhatan nation, and the first Virginian ever to speak English, tends to raise the proverbial bar in relation to the realities of her life; however, the myths seem to endure, as they usually do with famous historical figures. The paper concludes that it is clear that Pocahontas, the daughter of Powhatan and the allegedly first ?savage? to marry an Englishman, is far more real than could ever be imagined and stands today as one of the most influential women in American history.

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"As king of the Indian tribes from the Atlantic seaboard and down through the wilds of Virginia, Powhatan was naturally distressed by the arrival of the English colonists in 1585, and he and his fellow tribesmen were probably instrumental in the extermination of the early colonists, especially those connected with Sir Walter Raleigh whose colony mysteriously disappeared. On April 30th, 1607, a second colony, sent out by the Virginia Company of London, anchored in what is now Chesapeake Bay on the Atlantic seaboard. These fresh colonists, who settled in Jamestown, soon entered into friendly relations with the natives, which spurred additional English colonists to brave the high seas and sail to the New World."

Tags:colonists, christian, adulation, barbarians, tatoos

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This paper explains that the different positions about slave trade, geographic considerations, economic conditions, Native-American relationships and religion resulted in the development of separate cultures in the New England and the Mid-Atlantic colonies. The paper discusses that the introduction of tobacco was one economic factor that greatly influenced the economic and social structure of the Jamestown and Virginia colonist. The author points out that for the New England colonists the sea was their source of revenue and culture.

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"The area soon became controlled by a handful of large plantation landholders with indentured laborers. Since few British colonists could finance their cost of passage, colonizing agencies fronted transportation costs. In exchange, emigrants agreed to work for the agencies as contract laborers for usually between four and seven years. Often, these contracts were sold to colonists with large estates. Though many indentured servants earned their freedom over time, more wealthy colonists were able to absorb New World land rapidly during early colonization. As experienced in other colonies, indentured servitude created an imbalance of economy and political power as Jamestown and the Chesapeake Bay colonies developed. After indentured emigrants won their freedom, the situation also created a need for manpower, which came in the form of a burgeoning slave trade."

Tags:tobacco, slaves, sea, indenture, plantation

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This paper is written from the perspective of an English carpenter who intends to spread the light of his mother church of England to the poor savage Indians. The writer describes his perceptions of the Indians and of the land they are living on. The writer also explains why he believes the English have the right to enter the land that was rightfully inhabited and possessed by others.

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"Their towns were scarce and their houses rather primitive and the knowledge of us carpenters and masons was to be of great help to those who decided to settle among these Indians. On the other hand, their soil was rich and the plants and trees were plenty and in larger quantities than at home, in England. The beasts were more numerous, the plants and trees were higher in number and there were many I have never seen or eaten before. The climate was better than in England and it appeared to be more favorable to growing all kinds of crops that we were only able to here about at home, as they were brought in from lands like Italy and Spain or Greece.
"After we had found our way through all the islands along the coast, into the main land we encountered the natives who overcame their fears once they found out we were coming in peace and whom we won over with small gifts like knives, dolls, small mirrors and glass jewelry. They appeared to me like babies one is able make happy by the show of a simple colorful toy. They lack any iron or steel tools of weapons and yet they have wonderful skills in building up their boats which they sail then in their rivers full of fish.."

Tags:Indians, Spaniards, French, Church, of, England, resources

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"The purpose of this research is to examine the events and issues surrounding the Boston Tea Party. The plan of the research will be to set forth the overall chronology of issues that emerged and established the political context in which the Tea Party could take place, and then to discuss the impact of the incident on the colonies, in particular the British responses that ultimately led to the Revolutionary War.

An appropriate understanding of the importance of the Boston Tea Party cannot be obtained without an understanding of the issues and events that preceded it. The Party, which occurred in 1773, actually had its origins several years earlier, in the wake of the French and Indian War, which ended in 1763. In 1766, Parliament passed the Quartering Act, which provided for "billeting, provisioning and discipline of British forces . . ."

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This short paper examines the societies in England and the American colonies in the period before the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). It provides a brief examination from an historical and sociological perspective of the causes and the circumstances surrounding the conflict. It also cites specific legislation passed by the British Parliament as leading to the outbreak of hostilities known as the American War of Independence.

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"The British Empire had been expanding since the late 16th century, which brought much wealth to the country as well as "luxury" items such as sugar and coffee (from the East Indies), tea from India, and slaves from Africa. An agricultural revolution had started that was a precursor of the Industrial Revolution and urbanization. The increasing wealth had also widened the gap between the rich and the poor and the introduction of mechanized agriculture had forced many rural workers to the cities. The population of Britain reached 5.7 million by 1750 and this time it was sustained and poised to grow further by the greater food production made possible by the Agricultural Revolution. Although it was a time of upheaval throughout Europe, the British society remained relatively calm in part due to the increasing wealth and memories of its damaging Civil War in the 17th century. ("History of British Society," 2006)"

Tags:colonial, America, Revolutionary, War, England

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"The first English colonists knew nothing but the English society and its fundamentals, but by the eighteenth century the colonists had developed their own, truly unique American identity. The inherent differences between England and North America played a part in this eventual separation. But nearing the close of the eighteenth century, the grievances of not only the radicals and the common people, but of the American equivalent of the aristocracy against the English were apparent. The forming of a truly American identity was a gradual process, but this identity was apparent as being separate from the English identity approaching the revolution.

Tags:american, colonies, history