Chapter 2:

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This week we are off to understanding how European settlers encountered Native Americans in the western hemisphere.  As we read how this process happened lets keep in mind that no one “discovered” America, there was an encounter. When we talk of of one group discovering the other we elevate one over the other and we don’t want to replicate the racialized cultural hierarchy of colonial America.

After reading chapter two write a two page essay that describes the obstacles the English settlers faced in America as they developed colonies from the New England area to the Chesapeake. What were their challenges in terms of the natural landscape they encountered, the social landscape they encountered as well as  the personal religious adaptations they had to make.  Take a look at the attached document to help you with the essay,

Quote Foner’s words at least twice in this response. Submit your response in the “assignments” tab. Make sure you take a look at the library writing guides to help you properly cite Foner in your essay.

William Bradford et al.

Mayflower Compact (1620)

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IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread
Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King,
Defender of the Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the
Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the
northern Parts of Virginia; Do by these Presents, solemnly and mutually, in the Presence of God and
one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better
Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid: And by Virtue hereof do enact,
constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and Officers, from
time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general Good of the Colony; unto
which we promise all due Submission and Obedience. IN WITNESS whereof we have hereunto
subscribed our names at Cape-Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord
King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth, Anno
Domini; 1620.

Mr. John Carver,

Mr. William Bradford,

Mr Edward Winslow,

Mr. William Brewster.

Isaac Allerton,

Myles Standish,

John Alden,

John Turner,

Francis Eaton,

James Chilton,

John Craxton,

John Billington,

Joses Fletcher,

John Goodman,

Mr. Samuel Fuller,

Mr. Christopher Martin,

Mr. William Mullins,

Mr. William White,

Mr. Richard Warren,

John Howland,

Mr. Steven Hopkins,

Digery Priest,

Thomas Williams,

Gilbert Winslow,

Edmund Margesson,

Peter Brown,

Richard Britteridge

George Soule,

Edward Tilly,

John Tilly,

Francis Cooke,

Thomas Rogers,

Thomas Tinker,

John Ridgdale

Edward Fuller,

Richard Clark,

Richard Gardiner,

Mr. John Allerton,

Thomas English,

Edward Doten,

Edward Liester.

Source: The Avalon Project, Yale Law School
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/mayflower.asp