The Road to Disunion: The Armistice of 1850

History 105, U.S. to 1865, Outline 1

I. Coastal Carolina Indians on the Eve of European Colonization

A. Major language groups: Siouan (Waccamaw, Cape Fear), Iroquois (Tuscarora, Cherokee),

Algonquians (Weapemeoc, Secotan, Choanoke)

B. Algonquians

1. economy

2. society

a. stratification

b. leadership

1. conjurers

2. werowances

c. justice

3. culture

a. adaptation to the environment

b. values

4. European views of Indians

a. admiration and envy

b. racial superiority

5. Indian views of Europeans

a. specially loved by God

b. Indian dilemma

II. Two Worlds Collide

A. Clash of Native American and European Culture