Native Power in Colonial America Although European empires sought to control Native people’s lands and lives in colonial North America, historians including Richard White and Pekka Hamalainen have demonstrated that Native societies were able to exercise considerable power in certain circumstances. For this essay, describe the middle ground in the pays d’en haut (as depicted […]
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Which of these New World colonial societies would you least like to have lived in and why?
The British Colonies in New England have always been given preference in tracing the origins of the United States of America. It should be obvious from the Textbook Chapters and Video Lessons that colonial America was an extremely diverse place filled with people that did not look like, think like, or act like Puritans in […]