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Hernan Cortes Conquers Mexico (1519-1526)


 * A**- Hernan Cortes.
 * P/T**- Segura de la Frontera on October 30th, 1520.
 * P/K**- Cortes and his group of Conquistadors were paid by wealthymen in Spain to find goods from the New World to send back. Cortes landed in Mexico in 1519. The Aztecs believed he was a god because he met the description of a god in one of their legends, so they welcomed Cortes and his men into their great city.
 * A**- The King of Spain. The fact Cortes is writing this to the person who is paying him to find riches and conquer New World peoples may have made Cortes make the Aztecs seem different than they really are in order to have the Emperor think positively on the situation.
 * R**- The reason for this letter is to tell the Emperor about the Aztecs and what they had found in Mexico and their progress.
 * T**- Cortes is trying to convey how rich in gold, cloths, and other fine things the Aztecs were. He also wanted to tell the Emerpor about how he is able to control them because they think he is a God.
 * S**- This sourse in important because shows the Spaniard point of view of the situation between the Aztecs and Spaniards. It shows the Aztecs culture from a person who does not understand it.

Aztec Chroniclers Describe the Spanish Conquest of Mexico (1519)


 * A**- a Sahagun witness of the encounter between Cortes and Moctezuma.
 * P/T**- 1519 in the Aztec city.
 * P/K**- Cortes and his group of Conquistadors were paid by wealthymen in Spain to find goods from the New World to send back. Cortes landed in Mexico in 1519.
 * A**- whoever reads it.
 * R**- The reason for this sourse is to tell of the Spaniards fromt the Aztec perspective. Its used to show that Cortes never really showed them any respect even in the beginning, before the Spaniards killed them.
 * T**- The author is trying to convey the situation of the Aztec perspective.
 * S**- This sourse in important because it provides information that a sourse from a Spaniard could never contain. It shows the complete other side of the spectrum.

__A Young Boy Is Put into Slavery__ (c.1735) -The most disconcerning features of Smith's forced removal from Africa to New England were watching his father be tortured to death and the beatings and loss of freedom he experienced himself. - Living with his master's sister for some time when he first arrived in the New World before working for his master helped him adjust to life in the New World. Instead of being thrown into hard labor right away, he got a chance to see how that community functioned and got a chance to get used to it.

__The Intolerant Act of Toleration__ (1649) - The protections that The Intolerant Act of Tolerance provided for Catholics were that no one were alllowed to deny the Catholic religion an say it is flaso or be any other religion but Catholic and that Catholics cannot being descriminated against for their religion. -If these laws had been strictly enforced, the Jews and Atheists would have been killed and lost their land.

__Framing the Mayflower Compact__ (1620) - In my opinion, the Mayflower Compact was the first American consistution because it states the laws and charactaristics that the nation should have like our Constitution does. Also, they share many of the same laws. - The quote, "combine ourselves together into a civil body politic... and frame such just and equal laws" from the Mayflower Compact forshadows the development of democratic institutions because it talks about using the population to decide on legistlation together and be the members of government.

__Anne Hutchinson is Banished__ (1637) - The record of the court that decided Anne Hutchinson's banishment reveals that the Puritan way of thinking is more based on their opinions of what should be in their society rather than based of the Puritan religion, like they claim it is.

__The Blue Laws__ (1672) - If one were to break any of the Blue Laws, they were killed. - The offenses stated in the Blue Laws that would still be regarded as criminal today are: the fourth law: willful murder, the fifth law: poisoning a person, the tenth law: kidnapping and/or the selling of another person, and the eleventh law: to lie in court.