Bartolomé de las Casas & Thomas Morton
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Bartolomé de las Casas & Thomas Morton – Document Questions Directions: Use the two documents found within the link for Chapter 1 to answer the following questions. Type all answers in BOLD
beneath each question. Once you are finished submit them to the appropriate dropbox. Bartolomé de las Casas Describes the Exploitation of Indigenous Peoples, 1542
1. How were the writings of de las Casas used to help a cause? He hoped that by exposing the brutality of the Spaniards, it would persuade the king and queen to protect the native people. 2. Were the natives aggressive and violent towards the Spanish at first? Use a quote from the document to support your answer. No, they were not violent "until that they were compelled to take up arms, provoked thereto by repeated injuries, violent torments, and unjust butcheries."
3. According to de las Casas, how did the natives respond to being presented with the ideas of the Catholic religion? They were open to knowledge and understanding of the Catholic deity; they were not looking for "grace" to be saved.
4. According to the document, how did the native population of the island of Hispaniola change
in the forty years that the Spanish had been there? In a span of forty years, three million changed to three thousand, which tells us that two million, seven hundred thousand natives had perished.
5. What happened to the climate of many of the islands discovered by the Spanish? They had become wastelands and uninhabitable
6. According to de las Casas, what was the primary motive for the Spaniard’s actions? Greed and insatiable avarice.
7. Would de las Casas’ account be considered a primary or secondary source? Explain your answer. It would be a primary source due to the fact that de las Casas saw all of this with his own eyes.
Thomas Morton Reflects on Indians in New England, 1637
8. What possible justification does Morton provide for why the natives were dying in large numbers? It was the hand of God that had knocked them down.
9. Were natives polite and inviting to guests in their home? Use a quote from the document to support your answer. "they are willing that any one shall eat with them. Nay, if any one shall come into their houses and
there fall asleep, when they see him disposed to lie down, they will spread a mat for him of their own
accord."
10. Why do natives in New England move so often? Due to the season change they move to where food is more abundant.
11. How did younger natives treat the elderly. Provide details in your own words.
They treated the elders with respect, without backtalking or making complaints.
12. What do you think Morton is referring to when he says things like “with the help of the devil”? He's referring to the native people's gods and medical practices. 13. What did the natives of New England use as currency?
They used what they called "wampampeak" with two types of colors: white and violet.
14. What is an example of an advanced farming technique that the natives used? Crop Rotation: Keeps the ground fertile.
15. According to Morton, how would the poor back in England benefit form living like the natives of New England? they wouldn't be starving in the streets.
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