... pages 25-65 I. The Planting of English America 1. Beginning of 17th century, European crop and livestock started making significant impacts on the landscape. Disease and armed conquest had ravaged the native people of the New World. Several hundred thousand enslaved Africans worked in the Caribbean and Brazilian sugar plantations. 2. Spain dominated the New World. A. England's Imperial Stirrings 1. 1500s, ... Chesapeake Indians were nearly extinct. Disease, disorganization and disposability caused their defeat. Colonists had no use for the Indians. Colonists wanted Indian land. F. The In...

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... of those who lived during those times. When one refers to the eighteenth century, however, he must realize that there were many major cultural, religious, and moral differences between colonial Americans of different regions of the newly discovered land we now call the United States of America. Our nation was once made up of many different kinds of people, from puritans ... families, clans, and tribes were far more supportive than were the frequently adversarial activities of landed families and nation-states in Europe."9 The native Americans of the North, also known as the Amerindians,...

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