HIST-H 105 Lecture 3: HIST-H105 Lecture Notes 3
HIST- H 105
History Lecture
September 4, 2018
Empires & Conquests: Life & Labor in English North America
1. Empires & Conquests: Key Themes
a. Tensions between piety and profit → religion & wealth
b. New Spain
i. Dependent on coerced labor of Native peoples
ii. Intermarriage between Spanish men & Native women
iii. New laws (1542) → Native peoples legally free but required to work for
the Spanish; captives taken in “just wars” could still be enslaved
iv. Ex. New Mexico
1. Franciscan missionaries → religious & cultural conversion
2. Colonial government → competed with missions for labor &
authority
3. Native revival, resistance, and collapse → the Pueblo Revolt
(1680) and its aftermath
c. New France (Canada)
i. Fur traders and intermarriage → Native women do not leave their villages
though
ii. Beaver wars and mourning wars → Huron vs. Iroquois & French vs.
Dutch
iii. Black Robes → Jesuits ← and “flying missions”
2. The Limits of European Control: Middle Grounds & Native Grounds
a. Why Pilgrims?
i. Settled mostly in Virginia & Chesapeake Bay
ii. England ruled by Elizabeth I → Later ruled by King James I
b. English Motives
i. Plant Christian religion
ii. To traffic
iii. To conquer
c. Transportation to Virginia Solutions to Surplus Population and Social Disorder in
England
d. According to Hakluyt
i. Poor of England could be transported to Virginia and employed as
farmers to grow grapes, olives, oranges, lemon trees, and sugar cane
ii. Others saw Virginia as opportunity for younger sons of gentry → lesser
nobility
e. Unlike Spain and France, English wanted to recreate English society in Virginia
i. Transportation
f. English Fantasies vs. English Realities
Document Summary
Empires & conquests: life & labor in english north america: empires & conquests: key themes, tensions between piety and profit religion & wealth, new spain i. ii. iii. iv. New laws (1542) native peoples legally free but required to work for the spanish; captives taken in just wars could still be enslaved. New mexico: franciscan missionaries religious & cultural conversion, colonial government competed with missions for labor & authority, native revival, resistance, and collapse the pueblo revolt (1680) and its aftermath, new france (canada) i. ii. iii. Fur traders and intermarriage native women do not leave their villages though. Beaver wars and mourning wars huron vs. iroquois & french vs. Black robes jesuits and flying missions : the limits of european control: middle grounds & native grounds, why pilgrims? i. ii. England ruled by elizabeth i later ruled by king james i: english motives i. ii. iii. To conquer: transportation to virginia solutions to surplus population and social disorder in.
