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John Cooke Reichardt History 1100 Week 3 Discussion Questions 6 September 2019

This document contains the discussion questions and responses from a history class. It discusses how religious and economic motivations shaped early European settlements in North America, and how imperial competition led colonies to develop different strategies for relations with indigenous people and defending settlements. It also explains that many early colonial projects started as private ventures but later came under government control, and many failed due to lack of resources for survival. Key terms defined include the Magna Carta, Levellers, Diggers, tobacco, and "masterless men".

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John Cooke Reichardt History 1100 Week 3 Discussion Questions 6 September 2019

This document contains the discussion questions and responses from a history class. It discusses how religious and economic motivations shaped early European settlements in North America, and how imperial competition led colonies to develop different strategies for relations with indigenous people and defending settlements. It also explains that many early colonial projects started as private ventures but later came under government control, and many failed due to lack of resources for survival. Key terms defined include the Magna Carta, Levellers, Diggers, tobacco, and "masterless men".

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John Cooke

Reichardt

History 1100

Week 3 Discussion Questions

6 September 2019

1. How did religious motivations shape early European settlements in North America?
How did economic motivations shape early European settlements in North
America? How did religious and economic impulses overlap and/or conflict?
Religious motivations shaped early European settlements in North America by forcing
their Protestant religion onto Native Americans and making Protestantism the only form
of religion that can be practiced in the settlements. Economic motivations shaped early
European settlements in North America by introducing slavery and hard labor to North
America. In order to tend to all the fields, farm owners used slaves such as African
Americans and Native Indians. Also, they used indevoured servants. Religious and
economic impulses conflicted much of the time because in order to be economically
successful, it required you to have good relationships with the Indians; although, at the
same time, European settlers were forcing Indians to forgo their own views and become
members of the Protestant religion.
2. One famous 19th century historian once said: “Spanish civilization crushed the
Indian. English civilization scorned and neglected him. French civilization
embraced and cherished him.” Taking into account our week's readings and
lectures, why or why not would you agree with his assessment?
I would agree with this statement because when we first discussed Spanish exploration to
the Americas, we discussed how explorers such as Hernan Cortéz brutally slaughtered
and took over many Indian civilizations such as the Aztec city Tenochtitlán. Then, when
we discussed the English, we talked about how they forced Indians to convert to their
Protestant religion, destroyed their forests and land, and turned many into slaves. Lastly,
when we talked about the French, we discussed how they tried to mend their lives with
the lives of Indians. They developed trade and military partnerships with many different
tribes in the Great Lakes Region. Furthermore, they allowed Indians to choose whether
they would want to practice Catholicism, French national religion, or continue practicing
their own religion.
3. How did imperial competition and European rivalry shape the creation, settlement,
and endurance of permanent European colonies in North America?
Imperial competition and European rivalry shaped the creation, etc. of permanent
European colonies in North America by establishing good and bad strategies for alliances
with Indians, learning the best ways to defend settlements, and learning to live and
prosper with the environment in which you live in.
4. Why did so many early colonial projects begin as “private” or company ventures,
and why did so many of the same projects ultimately come under crown/imperial
control? Why did so many early colonial projects fail?
Many early colonial projects began as “private” or company ventures because most of the
government projects failed to accomplish their goal of establishing a settlement. In order
to help establish a settlement, governments granted company ventures like Compagnie de
la Nouvelle France to help establish trading and economic success in the colonial lands.
The economic success helped colonists establish towns and develop families in these new
lands. These projects would ultimately come under crown/imperial control because
governments would want to establish missionaries and spread the religion that the
country practices. Many early colonial projects failed due to lack of food, water, shelter,
and protection from indigenous people. For example, the first try at a settlement in
Quebec failed due to the outrageous cold and lack of food in Canada.
5 Id Terms:
1. Magna Carta – This was an agreement between King John of England and a group of
barons that stated a list of liberties such as protection against false imprisonment and the
right to Due Process.
2. Levellers – This was the first demographic political movement. The group proposed a
constitution where the British monarchy and House of Lords would be removed and to
greatly expand the right to vote.
3. Diggers – This group believed that all people should have equal amounts of freedom and
that anyone should have the right to own their own land.
4. Tobacco – This is a plant that many colonists grew in the colonies. It helped establish the
economies and way of life in many places such as Virginia. This farming of this plant led
to the use of indentured slaves and slaves from Africa.
5. Masterless Men – This was a term in England that described unemployed men or men
that were working for wages. This was thought as a loss of liberty in England, and many
of these men who were attributed this term decided to go to the New World in pursuit of
his own labor and land.

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