tailieunhanh - SAT II History Episode 1 Part 5

Tham khảo tài liệu 'sat ii history episode 1 part 5', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | REVIEWING THE COLONIAL PERIOD TO 1789 Contact Between Native Americans and Europeans The Spanish French and English handled their relations with Native Americans differently. With the establishment of the encomienda system the Spanish in the Caribbean used the native peoples for forced labor. Many Native Americans died from smallpox and other European diseases and from brutal treatment. Bartolomé de Las Casas a former conquistador turned priest protested to the pope and the Spanish king. In time the en-comienda system was ended and enslaved Africans replaced the already dwindling native populations on the Spanish sugar plantations of the Caribbean. On the mainland in New Spain the Spanish supported by their military set up missions and forced Native Americans to 1 give up their cultures 2 wear European-style clothing 3 learn Spanish 4 convert to Christianity and 5 labor for the priests. Because they had little military support the French did not establish missions. Unarmed French missionaries went among Native Americans to preach and convert them and were often tortured and killed for their efforts. The English treatment of Native Americans varied from colony to colony but often began with good relations for example the Pilgrims and Wampanoags and William Penn and the Delaware or Lenni Lenape. As more settlers moved to the colonies and encroached on Native American lands fighting erupted between colonists and Native Americans with the Native Americans always losing. Jamestown The First English Colony Review Strategy See page 80 for the origins of slavery in the Americas. The first permanent English settlement was Jamestown founded in 1607 by Captain John Smith. The Virginia Company had received a charter from James I granting it the right to settle the area from the lost colony of Roanoke off the coast of what is today North Carolina to the Potomac River. The charter also granted the colonists the same rights as English citizens. In order for the colonists to .