North America Dbq

Colonization of North America was heavily influenced by power, wealth, and morality. The "... many encounters between the Native Americans and explorers and African people were forcibly enslaved and brought to the colonies to provide labor.", are part of power ,wealth ,and morality and impacted the colonization of North America. Religious persecution, slavery and greed are direct negative consequences of power ,wealth ,and morality.

The definition of power is to have control over someone or some group. A historical example of this includes slavery, slavery is the act of owning someone as property without their consent. The rich owned slaves to do work, such as tending to crops, housework or other labor. However, document one, show that one group has more rights or power than another group based on their church. According to this primary source, "It was agreed and concluded as a foundamentall order nott to be disputed or questioned hereafter, thatt be admitted to be free burgesses in any of the plantations within this jurisdiction for furture, butt such planters as are members of some or

The doctrine of discovery is a primary example. European monarchies thought that because they were Christian they were morally obligated to take the indigenous people 's land. Document two shows an image of a man standing on the podium wearing a sign that "A WATON GOSPELLER" in front of a large audience with some not making eye contact and others with discouraging faces. Clearly he 's being punished and embarrassed. According to the definition below the image, " Wanton gosspeller ' was an accusatory title given to men and women who were not civil or religious leaders, but who publicly interpreted or preach about holy text." It was a punishable offense to preach certain religions, therefore, this is considered a moral to do. Religious persecution was obviously alive in the colonization of North America 's