History Question: Describe the Native American cultures throughout the Americas.

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History Question:

Describe the Native American cultures throughout the Americas. Can we talk about one culture? In your answer discuss the Mesoamerican region, the Lower Mississippi region, the Great Plains, and the Northeastern Woodlands.

And also, discuss the proprietary colonies, with special emphasis on Pennsylvania. Next, compare and contrast the Middle Colonies (PA, NY, NJ, DE), the Chesapeake region (MD. VA), the South (NC, SC, GA), and New England (MA, NH, CT, RI). Take a look at the governments, economies, religion, etc.

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NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURES:

Before European arrivals many years ago 10-90 million native Americans used to live in America but during a tough time during ice age they moved to Mexico and then COLUMBUS given them the name INDIAN. Then they were labelled as American Indians and now being called native Americans...

They were formed into many tribes and cultivated crops became farmers, fishermen, hunters. In 17th century visitors from Europe entered their land and slowly tried to conquer the entire America. The people without any other option tried to exist with Europeans, the white men through some secret ways bought deadly diseases like measels, cholera to native Americans Which killed many people. And then the white men started the Indian removal act and slaughtered brutally many people which resulted in reducing numbers of native Americans.

Coming to 20th century the government recognised some hundreds of tribes and offered citizenship. Right now there are more than 2 million native Americans, who still lives on reservations and unemployment.

EASTERN WOODLAND CULTURE :

The eastern Woodland culture consisted of tribes living in eastern America and Canada. The moderate climate conditions, rainfall,lakes, rivers, forests were all comprised in eastern woodland. Now Illinois is also a part of eastern woodland culture then, the natives were basically hunters who also made bows and arrows.

PROPRIETARY COLONY:

Also termed as British colony in Caribbean and north America. There were some rules back then in British Empire, like all land belong to ruler and then partitioned into different types. Proprietary Colony is one among them. Maryland and Pennsylvania are so called proprietary colonies then.

King Charles || established the first proprietary Colonies, land grants and purchases, established churches,towns and ports. Before the American revolution war there were complaints about the management and that resulted in change of proprietary Colonies into royal colonies.

MIDDLE COLONIES: middle Colonies got fertile soil and they farmed in larger areas, cultivated crops. Major parts are Pennsylvania, new york, Jersey. Also German, Swedish lived in this Colonies.

GOVERNMENTS: Both the middle colonies and new England practiced the same form of self government.

RELIGION: The new England strictly followed catholic and they forced people to visit Churches for worship, where as in middle Colonies there is no particular single religion and they have freedom.

ECONOMICS: New England soil was inconsistent and not fertile so they found other modes like fishing, business. While the soil in middle colonies was so fertile and they grew crops like wheat and barley.

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