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Ch 3   The Creation of New Worlds

I. Relations between Native Americans and Europeans
   A. The Impact of Trade
      1. The spread of European diseases
      2. Growing economic dependency on Europeans
      3. Economic motivations for war
      4. The Beaver Wars in New France
   B. Occupation and Control of the land
      1. different views about ownership
      2. increased European population
      3. increased conflict
   C. Religion and Conversion
      1. Catholic conversion of Native Americans
           by French and Spanish
      2. Puritan attempts at conversion
   D. Colonial Wars of the late 17th Century
      1. King Philip's war in New England
      2. Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia
        a. newer settlers wanted land
        b. settlers attacked Susquehannocks
     3. The Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico
         a. Spanish decree in 1573 that native peoples
             would be dealt with peacefully.
         b. Missionary activity by Franciscans began
             in 1598 in New Mexico.   missions
      1.  Made few allowances for indigenous practices.
      2.  Forced Pueblos to "live in a civilized manner."
      3.  Disrupted traditional patterns of life
           and provoked conflict.
      4.  Epidemic diseases decimated indigenous
           population.
          c. Eventually, armed conflict erupted between
              Spanish and Pueblos.
      1.  Pueblo uprising in 1680 drove Spanish
           out of New Mexico.
      2.  Spanish returned through force in 1693.
          d. Spanish empire in North America remained
              fragmentary through the 1770s.
  II. Relations Between Africans and Europeans
     A. Evolution of the Institution of Slavery
      1. European attempts to enslave Native Americans
      2. Transition to slave labor
          African origins of slaves
    B. The Process of Enslavement
    C. The Emergence of an African American
         community
    D. Resistance and Rebellion eithin the slave
         community
      1. New York 1712
      2. Stono Rebellion   1739   South Carolina
III. Non slave labor in Colonial America
    A. Native American labor in New France
          and the Spanish Borderlands
      1. Encomienda - right to collect tribute
      2. repartimiento - compelled Indians to work
      3. rescate - ransomed Indian captives
    B. Labor in the British Colonies
      1. indentured servants
      2. slaves
      3. convict labor
      4.  redemptioner system
      5. tenant farmers
      6. farmers in New England depended on
          their families
         Colonies in 1750
IV. 18th Century European Immigration

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