New World DBQ

The arrival of Europeans in the New World had a strong negative impact on the native population. The natives were horribly treated by the Europeans. Bartolome de las Casas wrote that the Spanish were unnecessarily violent to the Natives, which is impressive considering Bartolome himself lived in the New World. He was not accusing from the outside, but was a first person witness (Doc 2). Many Natives were also killed off just by the diseases Europeans brought with them. Diseases such as smallpox infected and killed a large percentage of the Native population (Doc

The discovery of the New world or America in the year 1492, and The Columbian Exchange it played a significant role on bring resources to various parts of the world. It brought the exchange of various resources like plants, animals, and diseases across the world. The year was 1492 is when Christopher set sail and put in motion The Columbian Exchange or also known as The Great Exchange. The Columbian Exchange affected the geographic location with the trading routes with Afro-Eurasia to the Americas. Also, The Exchange affected the economic with various countries with the trading. Finally, it affected the social change that made us the county we are to this day. With this exchange set forth the trading of various

In the early 1400’s ,the Europeans began to have control over the world by setting colonies in the Americas, along the coast of Africa, and parts of southeast Asia. This is referred to as the Age of Exploration . This Age was  caused by advances in technology and it was motivated by the desire for glory, religion , and economic factors. The accomplishments of the European Age of Exploration were that ideas and goods were being exchanged, wealth allowed them better ships and navigation tools, and they had the chance to claim land and territories. These factors contributed in bringing a European Golden Age.

During the exploration of the New World Portugal, France, and Spain had one thing in common to search for new resources such as sugar, spices, and gold. The European arrival in the Americas set a new era off known as the Columbian Exchange which changed the America’s forever. Native Americans introduced the Europeans to several new crops such as corn, squash, pumpkins, and sweet potatoes. Portugal set off for a search for sea route to Asia, while in competition with Spain who was also seeking an active root to Asia as well. The French exploration occurred later after the “New World” was found, and their target was to find a Northwest Passage where they hoped for a route through North America to the pacific.

The Columbian Exchange is a huge exchange of goods and ideas between the old world and the new world. The old world is considered Europe, Asia and Africa and the new world is considered America. Their colonies started to trade with each other and that’s when they formed the Columbian Exchange. Many countries were involved in this trade, including China, Africa and Italy. The exchange of the new ideas, traditions, food, religion and diet changed cultures everywhere. The Natives gave and received many items. Even though Europeans and American Indians saw some similarities in each other, their words differed. The introduction of plants into the new world extended a process that had been taking place for centuries in the Old World. Trade

After the Civil War, legislation was passed by Congress starting the reconstruction of the South. This reconstruction started in 1867 under the Reconstruction Act and ended in 1877 as part of the Compromise of 1877. Many people believed that a New South would form due to this reconstruction. This New South can be defined as a South that has completely abandoned all roots and traces of their past use of slavery and Confederate ideas. But, by 1900, the term “New South” did not become a reality, due to the continuation of an agricultural based economic system, the presence of blatant and widespread racism, and political views that greatly resembled pre-Civil war political views..

European Exploration is negative due to the effects that individual explorers and triangular trade still has on my life. Racism and the endangerment of native people are prime examples of the negative consequences of European Exploration.

The difference in development between Chesapeake and New England occurred because one focused their views based around religion and the worshipping of God while the other region based their economy and region on working,farming,and ways to gain money. This development came about because of the different settlers that came from Europe and their purposes behind moving from Europe to the Americas and how people raised their children and came up with similar views . A piece of evidence from document A that shows New England was focused more on religion is “ God Almighty in his most holy and wise providence hath so disposed of the condition of mankind [that] in all times some must be rich,some poor,some high and eminent in power and dignity, other

*The Age of Exploration was the flourish of trade. Colonizing the New World would see the extinction of god, glory, and gold. The new World would be affected by European diseases which killed most of the native population in the Americas and created a need for workers.

After the discovery of the New World by Christopher Columbus in 1492, this sparked the interests of the Columbian Exchange. This was a global network that allowed for the transfer of ideas, plants, animals, and diseases between America and the Old World. Although hindering the developments of societies around the world with diseases, the Columbian Exchange mostly aided these advancements with its trade of crops and silver and technological advances.

Leading up to the Age of Exploration, the Renaissance brought along many new and useful inventions, like compasses, triangular sails, and ships with large cargo holds, to make exploration easier. With all of these new inventions, along with God, Gold, and Glory, people wanted to explore the world, therefore starting the Age of Exploration. The Age of Exploration was more negative than positive, although it had both negative and positive impacts on the indigenous cultures of the Americas, Europe, and Africa. First, trade during the Age of Exploration was almost equally positive and negative, but it leaned towards the latter. Second, the religious side of the Age of Exploration was pretty much equally positive and negative. Finally, slavery

The New Freedom was Wilson's political slogan in his presidential campaign in 1912. He wanted to lower taxes and improve the banking system. He also wanted to give small businesses the freedom to be in competition by breaking up the monopolies. The campaign was significant in American politics. Wilson offered New Freedom by offering his vision of what was needed to happen in this country.

Exploring and settling the New World were exciting concepts in the 15th and 16th centuries. Questions of who could get there first, who had the right to make claims, and who would protect the new investments were of paramount concern. Spain began making forages into the New World with the famous voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492. Not long after, and due to the success of explorer’s like Hernandez Cortez and Francisco Pizarro in Mexico, Spain would quickly become the richest and most powerful nation in Europe. The thirst for gold and silver would lead the Spanish crown to push for more treasure expeditions and to look for a fabled passage that would make transportation of their fortune faster and more secure.

The Age of Exploration contains both benefits and harms to the groups of people, animals, and land that is associated. The damaging effects of the Age of Exploration were directed, for the most part, upon the people and land of the New World. With the treasure and innovation brought by Europeans in their ships were the

     The first effect of the Age of Exploration, was the finding of the New World. The New World provided opportunities for European countries to conquer new lands and to obtain wealth while conquering. After Columbus “found'; the New World, there were European explorers embarking on new journeys there constantly. They would set up new colonies and conquer new lands. From these colonies, they set up trading posts back to their mother countries. Gold, fur, corn, potatoes, tobacco, chocolate, and many other products were brought back to Europe. The wealth from these products could only be imagined. The countries would then trade their imports to other countries and make a huge profit.