chapter 3 THE EMERGENCE OF COLONIAL SOCIETIES

At the beginning of the chapter the author opens up the reading about Native Americas but instead of calling them Native Americans like the previous chapters he begins to start calling them Indians. I do not take it as an insult, but when he refers to them as Indians, many different ideas comes to mind. For instance when he uses the word Indian I can think he is referring to people from India or using it as another name for Native Americans. If the author begins to call them Native Americans he should continuing calling them that instead of randomly going back and forth calling them Indians and Native Americans, I think he should stick to one name. When he changes randomly to calling them Indians when he once called them Native Americans, it can get confusing because I may refer the Indians as people from India instead of Native.

In the 1630 Maryland was made as a refuge for the Catholics. I think the word refuge is used ironically. The word refuge is defined as being safe and away from danger or trouble, but the Europeans Catholics were in the center of danger. Instead of being kept safe the Catholic’s, three leaders were hung. I was alarming to read how Lord Baltimore made Maryland specific for the Catholic, but the Catholic's could not practice their religion in public and had to pay the Anglican Church. What was promised to them to be a safe place and it turned out to be the opposite, which I find very ironic.

It was out of the ordinary for me to read how a country that colonized a land to be different then the country they came from. John Winthrop wanted to differ the colonies from England. This is sort of surprising because I would think they would want to spread their beliefs and values to the new colonies, to make it like where they came from. When a country takes over new land you would expect it to make everything the same, as a way to identify and know they dominate this land. To me it was like Winthrop was trying to get away from England's belief and values and start something new at the colonies. I got the interpretation that he wanted the colonies to be better than England, which the colonies should watch over England instead of England watching over the colonies, Hence Winthrop's remark "we shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people upon us" (Boyer, 47). In the end I think the colonies do begin to put England behind them and build their own society that will over power England one day. I get that understanding by how Massachusetts made their own political system, legislature, and general court. As if Winthrop’s words motivated the people to part from England's ways.