Colonization Outweigh The Misfortunes

The colonization of the Americas began in the year of 1492, when Christopher Columbus and his band of explorers arrived off the coast of the Bahamas. This new “discovery” for Europe would have drastic effects not only on the settlers themselves, but on the natives and their environment. It is without a doubt that the appearance of these explorers placed the Indians on a dangerous trajectory. Now, it is currently understood how the colonization of the American continent brought disease, war and ultimately death for many of the natives. Early exploration, conquest and settlement brought about new economies for the Europeans, new religious freedoms, and knowledge of the world and of exploration, producing great benefits for the colonists. Although the settlers did face risks and sometimes death during their conquest, they undoubtedly benefitted from this expansion. The Indians, however, were dealt a different hand. The culture that they had developed and the immense civilizations that had evolved were ultimately destroyed as the spread of epidemics, constant war, and brutal exploitation brought these prosperous and hospitable peoples to their knees.

George would later attend Oxford to obtain his undergraduate degree. It was at school that George was introduced to John Wesley through his participation in the Holy Club. Mark Noll explained this time by saying, “Whitefield had been an Oxford undergraduate of very modest means when he was recruited into the Holy Club where John Wesley and his brother, the hymn writer Charles, were prominent”. Noll goes on to say that it was through the participation in the club that George was saved. After Whitefield graduated his talent for preaching was almost immediately recognized. He was asked to travel to many churches throughout England preaching the good news of Jesus Christ. Arnold Dallimore explained that during this time that people would simply try to touch George’s garments as he passed them. Though Whitefield had celebrity type success in England he was called to continue his preaching in America.

1. According to Adam Smith the discovery and colonization of America affected the economic development by the increase of its enjoyments and augmentation. The surplus produce of America, imported into Europe, furnished the inhabitants of this great continent with a variety of commodities.

For years, the Native Americans lived a very solitary life with their own unique way of living, that was until the European’s showed up with their very complex way of living. Harmony with nature was a very important aspect of Native American culture. The Native people embraced nature with no intention to modify it unlike the Europeans. They simply cared more about nature and what it had to offer. The spiritual connection between the land and these Natives were distinctive from the Europeans also due to the fact that to the settlers, land meant wealth. As a European, if you owned any land you were considered a wealthy upper class human being. As a Native, no one owned the land and anyone could benefit from the land.

The 1800s were a time of change in the world. Industry and imperialism became the main focus of many nations, no nation more than Great Britain. Britain already being a world power, lead the charge of industry throughout the world, using their far superior technology at the time to imperialize and colonize almost any nation that would benefit them. Britain was the workshop of the world and required an abundance of raw materials to fuel their industry. After losing a majority of its land in the west to American independence, Britain turned its attention to the east. Britain expanded to Africa and India both full of resources, and both full of people with different cultures, customs, and religions. When the British colonized these new lands, they changed things. Britain advanced the land and the territories greatly in terms of technology and society, it came at the expense of the native peoples.

Due to the way he presented his preaches many people adored his works this led to new missionary work in the Americas in converting Natives and Africans into Christians. The significance of Whitefield was that he lessened the importance of the old clergy as well as people respecting the beliefs of Christianity. Due to the way he preach helping the Great Awakening, which was a sudden outbreak of religious fervor, it helped people around the world to convert to Christianity this is a big reason why in present day a good portion of the world’s population are Christians. Whitefield teachings to the Great Awakening help contribute the unification of the North American

George Whitefield is an individual like no other. He’s an individual who made a mark on history. He was an average person who lived to make a major difference and would be one of the most well known individuals to take part in the Evangelical Awakening of the 1700s. It was a time when you saw God’s hand in the world like never before.

1. What fundamental factors drew the Europeans to the exploration, conquest, and colonization of the New World? What was the impact on the Indians, Europeans, and Africans when each of their previously separate worlds “collided” with one another? What caused the shift from indentured servant to African slaves as the dominant labor force in the southern colonies?

He preached zealously about the folly of believing in salvation through good works. He went as far as providing a landscape of Hell in his most famous sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. He depicted the place of eternal damnation as being “paved with the skulls of unbaptized children.” Four years later, a man by the name of George Whitefield released a revitalizing style of evangelic preaching throughout the colonies. His booming voice resounded over thousands in an open field. An envious, acclaimed English actor stated that Whitefield could make audiences weep by merely saying “Mesopotamia.” He continued in his oration of God’s almighty nature while touring the colonies, eventually bringing Jonathan Edwards to tears and frugal Benjamin Franklin to emptying his pockets into the collection plate. “Old lights”, as the orthodox clergymen were called, were skeptical of the revivalists’ theatrical antics, while “new light” ministers supported the Awakening for its rejuvenating of American religion. The lasting effects of the Great Awakening were many. Believing converts went to other sects that were more accepting of emotive spirituality, Congregationalists and Presbyterians split, competitiveness amongst American churches arose, a wave of missionary work flowed over Indians and black slaves, many “new light” institutions were founded, and, perhaps most significant, the Great Awakening was the first mass movement of the American

He managed to tour the colonies from New Hampshire to Georgia spreading the word of God to all and encouraging the widespread attendance of mass throughout America. The audience that Whitefield attracted ranged from rich and poor, young and old, rural and urban, and north and south. This was extremely important because with the Great Awakening came the resistance of a government based in

George Whitefield was born in Gloucester, England, the son of a saloon operator. Whitfield converted to Christ in 1733 and shortly afterwards entered Oxford University, and began his preaching career in the colony of Georgia in 1739. Whitfield adopted a moderate Calvinism

Brainerd visited slaves in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey and preached to them about the word of Christ and had a strong standing against slavery. Regarding the Negro slaves one colonial writer said that the Negroes were "strangers to Christianity and still under the influence of pagan Africa." Only a few successes are mentioned. John Woolman a Quaker took a stand in 1743 for abolition of

How did the experience of colonization affect those who were colonized while also influencing the colonizers? Colonization requires the interaction of two different groups and no matter how much one culture or group may be the more powerful both end up picking up traits of one another.

In April 1995 Pamela George, an Ojibway women, was brutally murdered in Saskatchewan. Her murderers Steven Kummerfield and Alex Ternowetsky, young middle-class white men, were convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to merely six and a half years in prison. George’s story is one of the many Indigenous women who have been murdered or missing over the past years. There are over 580 cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women, close to half are put aside and left unsolved. Only 53% of these cases have lead to charges of homicide (Klement 8). Drastically, statistics indicate that Aboriginals are faced with more hardships throughout their life compared to the average Canadian. Indigenous groups, particularly women, suffer from a lower rate of education, higher suicide rates and an array of health risks. This paper will examine the role settler colonization history has played in perpetuating conditions for violence to indigenous women, many of which are still experienced today. This will be accomplished by first assessing the history of settler colonization and its negative repercussions. Secondly, it will use Sherene Razak’s concept of “spatial segregation,” to illustrate how state institutions have facilitated violence through space, race and the law. Lastly, this paper will use evidence from the film “Finding Dawn” to further demonstrate how violence towards indigenous women is institutionally produced.

Colonization was very expansive a long time ago because there was a lot of war and countries always wins or lose. When you lose you lose a lot of important things that is need in the country. Yes, I have come to an agreement that colonization is worth the cost. If you want your population to increase and want to be more powerful then colonization is worth the cost. Columbus discovered new places and one of them was Hispana. In Sermon Delivered to church he says a speech on how we can make this place better and asks questions.