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Impact of European Discoveries in the New World

When the English explorers and colonists began to arrive, focusing on both the Virginia coastal region and what is now New England, a new phase in the encounter was initiated. In this phase, while the goal of colonization was the acquisition of resources and the expansion of European national power via possession of New World territories, the majority of the new arrivals planned a permanent residence in the Americas.

William Bradford of Plymouth Plantation (in Baym, et al, 39) described the first encounter of the English with Native Americans as friendly, but also as a relationship which quickly turned into one of hostility. Bradford (in Baym, et al, 43) points out that the goal of the Puritans was nothing less than the establishment of a new covenant and a new social order that would allow Puritans to believe in God and worship as they chose. His position was that the New World had been given to the Puritans and that they were ordained to become masters of this world. The Native Americans were of less significance to God than the Puritans in this colonist's viewpoint.

John Winthrop (in Baym, et al, 21รป24) was a Puritan who sought religious freedom in the Plymouth Bay Colony and governor of that settlement; Winthrop wrote primarily of the need to ensure civil liberties and of the importance of doctrinal orthodoxy among English colonists. He did not address relationships with the Native Americans, focusing instead on the governance and homogeneity of the English colonies and the need for conformity.

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