Were the first British settlers in the Americas intelligent?
This is a very close issue. The question of whether the first British settlers were free and intelligent is a highly debatable one. About the only thing I can say for sure is that they certainly felt as if they were free and intelligent. They felt that they were the people who were being oppressed by the "evil" British and that they needed to move to America to escape this persecution. However, some of their actions certainly weren't so free. The Salem Witch Trials, for example, are some of the most heinous crimes ever committed against humans at any time. The following is an attempt to answer this question, one which will continue to be debated back and forth forever I am sure.
One could say that the first British settlers were free and intelligent for several reasons. The first and most obvious is that they moved to this virgin land and had an opportunity to start anew
In conclusion, while I personally side with the belief that the first British settlers were not enlightened, I can very easily see the other side. They were enlightened because it was one of the few untouched places in the world where they could start anew and spread the beliefs of Christianity. However, it is for exactly these reasons that I condemn it. I think that they just were greedy and really rushed into something unprepared, which is why so many died those first winters, and had they prepared then they might have been enlightened. That is how I feel on whether the first British settlers are enlightened or not.
One could also say that the first British settlers certainly weren't free and intelligent. Probably the biggest reason is because they attempted to destroy the native culture. They tried to assimilate the culture and spread their ways of life to people who di
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