Instructions for Writing an AMSCO Response

5/13/2016

For more information on writing essays see pages xix-xxviii and pages 16-17 in your AMSCO book. Your answer should include the following parts:

A thesis statement: a full sentence that clearly states your main argument and directly responds to the essay question.
Topic sentences: a full sentence for each body paragraph that clearly states the argument for that paragraph.
Supporting evidence: three to six phrases or facts that support the topic sentence of each body paragraph. (These would be bold face words in a regular history book. People, events, places, etc.)

For this exercise, no conclusion is necessary. I am not giving you a number of words or specific length. However, I expect the question to be answered as completely as possible. This is practice for the real thing so make the most of it!!

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Randi Terry

7/5/2017 12:22:42 pm

The ways that the early Spaniard and English settlers conducted life in colonial America were very different from one another. Spain was the first European country to make claims to the New World by way of Christopher Columbus. England fell a little behind because of religious unrest in the home country when King Henry VIII broke away from the Roman Catholic Church, but when Queen Elizabeth took the throne, she sent English explorers to make claims in the New World as well.
The Spanish settlers were generally young, single men, who traveled to the New World to make money. They settled in Peru and Mexico where they found the Aztec and Incan empires. Both empires were highly civilized, but were mostly wiped out by the disease that the Europeans brought and transmitted. The natives who were not killed by disease were enslaved and worked to death, along with many enslaved Africans from West Africa. Since most of the settlers were single, they married the natives and Africans, resulting in a harsh social caste that was controlled by full blooded Spaniards.
The English, on the other hand, mostly came as families and settled in areas that were not heavily populated by natives. Unlike the Spanish, the English did not start of being harsh and unfair to the Native population. The English and natives actually helped each other by trading goods and ideas until the English needed more land to support their numbers. The natives, who felt that their customs and beliefs were being threatened, resisted the English attempts to push them out of their lands, which lead to war between the settlers and natives. Eventually, though, the English pushed the natives out of their homelands near the oceans and farther inland.

Ashton Fisher

7/7/2017 11:57:53 pm

Ashton Fisher
Coach Nason
AP US History
July 7, 2017

North and South American Evolution
North and South America’s evolution into a new world was developed mainly from the English settlers and Spanish conquistadores. These new settlers both had different views and ideas of the ways of development of the new world. The new world and current natives from both cultures blended differently from each different culture. The ways of economics were both different in many ways. These two different types of people in their new adventure of this new land of new opportunities and societies produced many different and same outcomes of the natives in this new world.
The English settlers were family oriented and structured for new settlements and developments. These new settlers joined in with the Indian tribes like family. The native Indians taught the English settlers how to survive in this new environment. Each settlement was friendly and family oriented, and based on religion. Each group had a complex society structure. Men hunted and made tools, while the women gathered and grew crops and helped with food production. English families mingled with the Indian tribes and felt equal with them. The bad part was the English introduced disease and death to the Indians culture. The English society and Indians worked well together and thrived in the new environment.
When you look onto the Spanish, conquistadores, they were totally different in their values and believes. These new invaders weren’t friendly towards the Indians. They view their self has a superior race. Indians became slaves not partners. The Spanish didn’t bring families. Their intentions were to dominate this new land, not make friends. Three highly developed civilizations died from this invasion. The conquistadores brought disease and death to these cultures. The trade routes created the enslaved Indians and Africans brought in this new unfriendly world. Spanish were loading ships and sending gold, silver, and many other valuables for trade in Spain. The Spanish were there basically for the valuables for Spain.
When looking at both English and Spanish explorers, they were both different beliefs, economic values, and social skills. When evaluating each technic of structure of each society and values developed two different outcomes to their area of settlement towards the natives. These two different groups had a totally different agenda of life.

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