Culture Clash

Target

Explain why there is conflict between the Native American, Europeans, and West Africans.

Christopher Columbus-sought a new (quicker) sea route to Asia (West)

Christopher Columbus

October 12, 1492

Colonization- the establishment of outlying settlements controlled by the parent country.

Did the Native Americans submit?

They were conquered!

Set up plantations (Portuguese)

Who were the slaves?

Native Americans

Ravaged by disease and difficult to enslave

Disease (measles, mumps, chicken pox, typhus, Small Pox

Solution????

West Africans

West Africans

Beginnings of the African slave trade

All three groups have come together in North American

Native Americans, West Africans, Europeans

This is “the Culture Clash”

Effects of the “Culture Clash”

1. Columbian Exchange

-new plants and animals go from Europe to North America and from North America to Europe

Effects of the “Culture Clash”

2. A New Society is Born

The true beginning of the story of the United States

Spanish conquer South American tribes

Continued Conquests

As the Spanish conquered more, they began to live among them and marry

Mestizo- mixed Spanish and Native American

Their descendants…Mexicans

Spaniards only get as far as : Southern portion of the U.S. (New Mexico)

Who settles in the North???

ENGLISH!!!!!!!!!!!!