The interactions between American Indians and Europeans varied, sometimes resulting in cooperation through trade, sharing of farming techniques and crops, but other times leading to conflict over land ownership, dominance in trade, cultural differences, and diseases brought by Europeans that devastated American Indian populations. The Spanish conquered and enslaved Native Americans while also spreading Christianity and diseases, the French established trading posts and spread their religion, and the English established settlements and claimed land while also learning from and trading with American Indians.

1. Cultural Interactions

2.  The interactions between American
Indians and Europeans sometimes led to
cooperation and other times resulted in
conflict.

3.  How did the American Indians and
Europeans interact with each other?

4.  The Spanish conquered and enslaved the
Native Americans.
 They brought Christianity to the New
World.
 They also brought European diseases.

5.  The French established trading posts.
 They also spread the Christian religion.

6.  The English established settlements and
claimed ownership of land.
 They learned farming techniques from
American Indians.
 They also traded with the American
Indians.

7.  The American Indians taught farming
techniques to European settlers.
 They believed that land was to be shared
or used, but not owned.

8.  The American Indians and European
explorers did get along in a few ways:
 Europeans brought weapons and metal
farm tools.
 Trade
 Crops

9.  But they also had conflicts over many
things.
 Land
 Competition for trade
 Differences in cultures
 Disease
 Language differences