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Clash Of Cultures: Characteristics Of Three Groups Of Native Americans
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Clash of Cultures

Complete the grid by describing the characteristics of three groups of peoples: Native Americans, colonists, and West Africans.

Native Americans
Northern Colonists
Mid-Atlantic Colonists
Southern Colonists
West Africans
Economic Structure
The Economic Structure of the Native Americans were the trading of food, weapons, Traveling Items Routs, and the trading of jewelry. After the Europeans has settle with the Native Americans in the early seventeen and eighteen century the trading grounds were to be called the middle ground between the Natives and the European trader.
New England colonists had tapped into a sprawling Atlantic trade network that connected them to the English
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Large portions were usually given to men of higher social standing, but every white man—who wasn 't indentured or criminally bonded—had enough land to support a family. Many New Englanders took part in a sophisticated system of trade in which they exported products to the West Indies where they were traded for molasses, sugar, gold coins, and bills of exchange (credit slips). They carried the West Indian products to New England factories where the raw sugar was turned into granulated sugar and the molasses distilled into rum. The gold and credit slips were sent to England where they were exchanged for manufactures, which were shipped back to the colonies and sold along with the sugar and rum to …show more content…
The kids in the Middle Colonies would play games. They would stoolball which os like criket. They would play with dolls, marbles, and tops. They would also play blindmans bluff, tag. Religion was important. They would have Sunday survice and gatherings. They had all different religions. Like, Dutch reformed, Angelican, Prespyterian, Cutheran, French, and Huguenots, Congregational, Methodist, Bupist, Quaker, Muravian, and Jewish religions. Education was important. If the kids couldn 't go to school then there parents will teach them. Usually older kids went to school younger kids would stay back. Girls would learn household and social skills. Boys would learn how to trade and other

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