Saturday, May 2, 2015

Compare and contrast The Last of the Mohicans with colonial times.

The Last of the Mohicans, by James
Fenimore Cooper, actually takes place during colonial times, in the 1750s in the early
years of the French and Indian War, so it is difficult to contrast it with that time
period except to say that the British colonies were generally more well developed on the
coast by this time, and more than 1 million British subjects lived in the 13 colonies. 
In the 1600s they were much more scarcely populated.


The
story/film also takes place on the frontier at that time, which was the Appalachian
Mountain range and the most vulnerable to French/Native American attacks.  Also, as the
title of the book implies, many of the tribes along the east coast had been all but
exterminated by disease and war by the time of the mid 18th
century.

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