AHIS 100
Colliding Cultures
Dr. Kane
mkane2@albany.edu
Office Hrs: W 10:30-11:30 & F 11:30-12:30
Social Science 60S
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September 9
the seventeenth century in an hour or less
- mid century shifts
- increased European emigration
- colonies become more permanent
- increasing conflict over land use and jurisdiction
- conflict in new and old colonies
- New Amsterdam 1614
- Massachusetts Bay 1630
- Jamestown 1622
how did Spanish colonization in Latin America, South America and the Caribbean affect non-Spanish colonization in North America?
(more than one correct answer)
- A. Pirating Spanish ships financed English, Dutch and French colonies
- B. Spanish success with sugar plantations and silver mines encouraged other European countries to try the same
- C. Catholic Spanish violence against Indians encouraged Protestant countries to try more law-based approaches to colonization
- D. The violence of Spanish enslavement of Indians made other European countries turn to enslaving Africans
- E. Other European colonies focused much less on attempts to convert Native people
Esopus Wars - New Amsterdam 1658-1663
Dutch + Iroquois v. Esopus + Mohegan
Pequot War 1634-1638
English + Narragansetts v. Pequots
why did Euopean families emigrate to North America in the 17th century?
- A. They wanted to create refuges of religious tolerance where everyone could safely practice their religion
- B. The Caribbean was too expensive have you even seen resort prices
- C. North America was one of the few places where "middling" families could hope to own land
- D. They were opposed to the emerging slave economies of the Caribbean and South America
Bacon's Rebellion 1676
English + Africans v. English + Powhatan
what did all these conflicts have in common?
(more than one right answer)
- A. they were fought over and resulted in the expansion of settler land control
- B. they were fought along hard racial lines
- C. they started small and built up into something larger over time
- D. they were the result of settler aggression against Native groups