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  1. Weed 1
  2. Carina Weed
  3. Mr. Turcotte
  4. AP US History
  5. 7 September 2011
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  7. DBQ 2 English-Indian Relations, 1600-1700 (pg. A106)
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  9. In the 17th century, during the time of their arrival on the eastern coast of America, English explorers already had an unsteady relationship with the Native Americans. These Englishmen had dubiously affable relations with the natives. For several decades, the Native Americans and the English had alternating battles with one another, resulting mostly from the intrusion of each other’s land. The English, however, eventually drove the natives off their conquered territory into the westward regions of North America. When the English first encountered the Indians, they immediately recognized that their lifestyles were much different than that of their own. The English-Indian contrasts were the main reasons for the constant battling between the two societies, and this induced the banishment of the natives by the English from their “used-to-be” land.
  10. The relationship between the Englishmen and the Indians was a complicated one at the least. At first, the Indians were welcoming to the new-arriving colonists, but as they began to be pushed westward, the Indians fought back, which started a rivalry between the two civilizations. According to Edward Waterhouse (Document B), YOU HAVE A QUOTE HERE YOU SEXY BEAUTIFUL GIRL <3 FIIIIIIX. “On Friday morning (the fatal day) the 22nd of March [1662]...[the Indians] basely and barbarously murdered, not sparing either age or sex, man, woman, or child [of the English colonists].” Although the Indians may seem like the enemies in this scenario, the English settlers are also ones to blame for the English-Indian opposition. As depicted in the illustration by J. W. Barber (Document C), the English immigrants attacked a Pequot Fort during the Pequot War of 1637. This war led to the near obliteration of the Indian Pequot tribe. Though it may seem as if one society was more vicious than the other, the Native Americans and the English both received an equal amount of violence and hatred against the other, and their brutalities proved these attitudes.
  11. The negative relations shared between the Indians and the English were demonstrated through several acts of violence, such as the Pequot War and King Philip’s War. Because the English felt as if they had jurisdiction over the Indians, the colonists attempted to YOU NEED TO PUT ‘ ‘ INSTEAD OF QUOTATIONS CARINA WEED! I LOVE YOU :) “correct” the Indians’ ways of life. An example of these attempts was converting the Native American religion to Christianity. As stated in the Proceedings of the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1619 (Document A), REMOVE QUOTE <3“...Each town, city, borough, and particularly plantation do obtain unto themselves, by just means, a certain number of the natives’ children to be educated by them in true religion and a civil course of life.” This controlling behavior of the English eventually led them to an official conquest of the Indians.
  12. After years and years of continuous warfare, the English colonists eventually managed to expel the Indians from the east coast of America. There are several reasons why the English were able to do this. One of these reasons, for example, is the English use of advanced weaponry and technology. They also were more experienced with warfare than the Native Americans were. Completely unintentionally, the English settlers also defeated the Indians by bringing deadly epidemic diseases from Europe and into Native American society, where there was absolutely no immunity to them. A disease that was conveyed to the Americas was smallpox, which caused the death of countless Native Americans. All of these advantages allowed the English colonists to force the Indians westward, away from the land the English now owned. -- GREAT PARAGRAPH BABE :D
  13. As it is apparent, English explorers had to deal with an immense amount of skirmishing for several decades before they could call the eastern coast of America NEEDS ‘ ‘!!! :) “theirs.” In order for the settlers to overcome the uncompromising attitude of the Indians, the Englishmen had to cope with many tiring and bloody battles with the natives. Some people may believe the controlling behavior of the English was unnecessary and cruel, but without it, the magnificent United States of America would most likely not exist today.
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