They are hunters by profession and they would have the whole range of the forests for themselves and their cattle.

One of our tribes was forced to wander far beyond Quebec, others dispersed in small bodies and sought places of refuge where they could. Some came to Pennsylvania, others went far to the westward and mingled with other tribes.

They at first asked only for a little land on which to raise bread for themselves and their families and pasture for their cattle, which we freely gave them. They soon wanted more, which we also gave them. They saw the game in the woods which the Great Spirit had given us for our subsistence and they wanted that too.

Soon your mighty forest trees under the shade of whose wide spreading branches you have played in infancy, sported in boyhood, and now rest your wearied limbs after the fatigue of the chase will be cut down to fence in the land which the white intruders dare to call their own

Peace, civilization, and the cheerful sound of the human voice have taken the place of the frightful savage wilderness, of the nightly howling of the wolf, and the mid-day terrors of the Indian scalping knife.

The inhabitants of our western country have lately had a useful lesson on this head.

It has been urged that a public debt greater than we can possibly pay before other causes of adding new debt to it will occur

where there is a settlement of thirty families about thirty miles from its mouth.

This state also emitted a large sum in bills of credit which served to pay the interest of the public debt. But the currency depreciated, as in other states.

Nothing is more charming than an inside view of the church on Sunday.

While the Federalist architects of the Constitution feared a pure democracy and preferred to limit political power to elite merchants, bankers, and plantation owners, Jefferson was more optimistic that the common American farmer could be trusted to make good decisions.

the United States would have to repay all outstanding debts owed to France, lend France 32 million guilders (Dutch currency), and pay a £50,000 bribe.

. The Directory was continually at war with coalitions of enemies including the Ottoman Empire, Austria, Prussia, and the Kingdom of Naples

The Daughters’ non-importation movement broadened the protest against the Stamp Act and gave women a new, active role in the political dissent of the time.

To make matters worse, Prime Minister Grenville introduced the Stamp Act in early 1765. Under this act, anyone who used or purchased anything printed on paper had to buy a revenue stamp for it

But the decision of the Indians to defend their homeland from invaders is not equal to the attitude of the British, who regarded native peoples as a lesser race that must be moved out of the way of progress.

The British army imposed harsh discipline on its soldiers, who were drawn from the poorer classes, to ensure they did not step out of line during engagements.

Pocahontas helped end the war in 1614 when she married John Rolfe (not Captain John Smith) and promoters of colonization publicized her story as an example of the good work of converting the uncivilized Powhatan to Christianity.

The settlers’ unwillingness and inability to grow their own food compounded their problems.

The Indians tolerated the newcomers because their numbers were modest and because the French supplied them with firearms for their ongoing wars with the Iroquois, who had received weapons from their Dutch trading partners

The Spanish image of an ideal colonial society included natives eager to work and embrace Christianity, mountains of gold and silver, and a social order where everyone knew their place. Patriarchy and social hierarchy shaped the Spanish colonial world

When I saw them making a move to fire at us, I rested my musket against my cheek and aimed directly at one of the three chiefs. With the same shot two fell to the ground, and one of their men was so wounded that he died some time after.

We set out the next day, continuing our course in the river as far as the entrance of the lake. There are many pretty islands here, low and containing very fine woods and meadows with abundance of fowl and such animals of the chase as stags, fallow-deer, fawns, roe-bucks, bears, and others which go from the mainland to these islands.

Yet we found no towns nor many of their houses, although we saw many Indians which are tall big boned men, all naked saving they cover their privy parts with a black-hued skin, much like a Blacksmith’s apron, tied about their middle and between their legs behind.

a bright tin dish most pleased him which he presently took up and clapt it before his breast. And after made a hole in the brim thereof and hung it about his neck, making signs that it would defend him against his enemies’ arrows.

The houses have flat roofs and walls of stone and mud,

And in that space our General mustered and trained his men on land in warlike manner, to make them fit for all occasions.

but they could not tell if they were human beings or animals; and it seemed to them that there were fields where they thought might also be villages, and they saw a forest whose foliage looked beautiful.