The conquest, colonization and slavery in early American history

THE CONQUEST, COLONIZATION AND SLAVERY IN EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY
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(10 April 10, 2011)
The conquest, colonization and slavery in early American history
United State of America which is known to be a superpower nation among the other nations in the world, after gaining its independent in July 4, 1776 and started implementing the new constitution, they also underwent through the same treatment of suffering in the hands of the colonizers which were the Europeans, Spanish, British and French people some years ago (Davis, 2000). These colonizers did so because they knew they were going to benefit materially, spread their religion freely and expand their territories for their benefit. The culture, economy and religion of the American citizens were influenced or had a lot of impact due to the above motives of the colonizers. European conquest, exploration and colonization took center stage in America in 1492 after Christopher Columbus headed the Spanish expedition who had sponsored him so that they could find a new route to India and China (Davis, 2000), here, he introduced the New World. Then afterwards, they sailed through the Caribbean coast on the islands of Hispaniola, Puerto Rico and Cuba which then led them to the deeper side of the North America (Tognetti, 2005). John Cobot sponsored by England after discovering New founded land decided to land in South America. During that period, the Eastern South America discovered by Pedro Alvares Cabral was busy being occupied by the Portugal colonists.
As the Europeans continued to put their focus in the colonization of the American citizens, the England and French decided to pitch camp in the Americas in the 16th century of which there plans never went through even though, later, the two nations, England and French and joining them, the Dutch republic also known as New Netherland managed to gain their settlement in 1614 between New Amsterdam (New York City) and Fort Orange (Albany, New York) in America where they established a line of agricultural settlements. With this settlement of the Dutch, they established a relationship with the Iroquois whom their main mandate was to supply the Dutch with firearms, blankets, metal tools and any other thing that the European traded in for the exchange of furs. With both parties benefiting from each other, the Iroquois took advantage of the benefits of the fur they were getting to completely destroy the Huron in order to push the Algonquins into Illinois and Michigan in which they succeeded and took control of the Native American. As the Iroquois gained from fur, the Dutch continued to grow slowly becoming more urban in agriculture as their source of income. This continued to encourage more different religions in America. By 1640s, the people who had migrated to New Amsterdam were known to speak 18 different languages.The French colonies who were benefiting from cod and fish of the Grand banks as the major...