Explain why Indian-English contact quickly devolved into mutual hostility. Why were the French in America able to attain a more peaceful relationship with Native Americans?
What will be an ideal response?
The English had preformed negative racial and cultural views toward the native population whom they assumed were an inferior people. Also, English agricultural plantations threatened Native-American access to the land. Both the French and the Dutch cooperated with Native Americans to develop a mutually beneficial trade in furs.
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