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Before the English came over to the New World, there was already a population here. There was somewhere around 70 million Native Americans spread across North and South America. There were all different kinds of groups of them. There were Mayans and Aztecs in South America just south of the Gulf of Mexico (5). In North America, there were a vast majority of tribes of Indians. The best-known tribe was the Iroquois Hurons. and next came the Inca Empire that Francisco and Pizarro discovered (16). This empire was one of the most sophisticated empires, they had ever seen in the Americas, by far (15). Some of the first settlements in the North Americas were along the St Lawrence River. These first settlements were made …show more content…
Due to this, few masters showed interest in converting their religion before the revolution. With few slaves being converted there was always religious gatherings going on while the white slave masters were not in the vicinity. African religion was very unique in the way it shaped the slave’s recreational lives. Their lives were also shaped by the traditional African influences if they were allowed to build their own houses. While being able to build their own house, they often had their own garden with traditional African foods such as millet, yams and sesame seeds. They often incorporated musical instruments such as drums and banjos in their traditional songs and dances (59). The late 1600s and early 1700s had a cultural impact on the settlers in the Americas. They thought themselves to be culturally inferior to the people in Great Britain. As the settlers built houses, they tried to incorporate new culturalistic styles and goods. Some people even went as far as to reshape their whole familiar religious practices. Although some settlers were on this trend, many were not and were happy just the way they were living in the New World and had very little interest in copying the British manner (73). Women were often left behind during war, watching their loved ones go to war and fight, only to have a letter come back of their perseverance in the fight and about how they were sorry for their loss. In 1780, the Ladies Association of Philadelphia was formed to raise money to buy shirts for the army. There was one specific time when John Adam’s wife Abigail asked him to put forth to the second Continental Congress a notion of “Remember the Ladies.” She was not expecting full rights, but she was expecting legal rights of protection for the women in this country. The outcome of the revolution yielded nearly zero results for the women, and it especially did