​​Week 2 Native Americans and European Settlers, Discussion US History

Chicago Humanities Style Citations please

Week 2 Discussion

Choose one of the following topics and write an essay. Some areas for you to consider including in writing your essay are provided – you are not limited to these. Post your essay as a New Thread by Thursday.

Impact on the environment, between Native Americans and European Settlers

  • What impact did Europeans have on their New World environments—native peoples and their communities as well as land, plants, and animals?
  • Conversely, what impact did the New World’s native inhabitants, land, plants, and animals have on Europeans?
  • How did the interaction of European and Indian societies, together, shape a world that was truly “new”?

Differentiate between the Chesapeake Bay and New England colonies.

  • Who were the colonizers?
  • What were their purposes in being there?
  • How did they interact with their environments and the native inhabitants of the lands on which they settled?
  • What were the differences and similarities between these two regions in how they met their labor needs
  • How did chattel slavery differ from indentured servitude? How did the former system come to replace the latter? What were the results of this shift?