... changes that occurred during this often-overlooked period. Through detailed analyses of changes in demographics, the economy, politics, and religion, Butler explains the origins of American culture. From its inception, American culture was tempered and enriched by ethnic pluralism. The first English colonists "homogeneous as they were "still had to learn to coexist with the Indians in ... faiths, these three groups shared enough in common with the English colonists (Protestantism, the English language, similar geographic origins) to effectively fuse with the English, forming a new, plu...

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The Native Americans and English colonists inhabited many contrasting ideals, individual beliefs based on culture, and had distinctive technological resources available to each of them that will ultimately affect the way each group utilize the ecosystems of New England. In the novel "Changes in the ... breeding ground for other useful tools and necessities for survival seasonally, The English colonists used the ecosystem's land as a gateway to power. The many contrasting ideals, individual beliefs based on culture, and different technological and ecological resources available to the Native ...

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