European Colonization Effects

European colonization of the New World was detrimental to Native Americans because it resulted in millions of Native deaths, took Native lands and forced Natives onto reservations, and destroyed the traditional Native way of life. The Native deaths were caused by smallpox, and other deadly Eurasian Germs. The germs were spread by the Europeans they gave them through blankets and food, millions of deaths were caused by these gifts. The Natives were forced onto reservations because most or many American Indians found life to be most difficult. Beginning in the “first half of the 19th century, federal policy dictated that certain tribes be confined to fixed land plots to continue their traditional ways of life.”(p1.U.Shistory.org) The Natives
These diseases took out around “90% of Native Americans”(p1GunsGerms&Steel). The” European germs also wreaked devastation on the aboriginal communities of Australia and New Zealand. The Europeans wanted the new world all to themselves so they choose a way, a dark way to kill the Native Americans off. More victims of colonization were killed by Eurasian germs, than by either the gun or the sword, making germs the deadliest agent of conquest.” (p1GunsGerms&Steel). More and More victims of the colonization were killed by the germs given by “Eurasian germs, than either the gun or the sword, making germs the deadliest agent of conquest.” (p1GunsGerms&Steel) The Europeans tried to kill off the Native Americans to get their lands to them to their
As they were moved to the reservation the way they lived off with the gender roles such as men were hunting and do the other manly things, such as the females worked with cooking, making clothes, spiritual rituals, cleaning and degutting the animals the men caught. The men were sort of afraid to go hunting because the Europeans would kill them on site if they weren’t on the reservation. “Through cultural imperialism, the leaders within the federal government attempted to make Native Americans into white men using various methods, including teaching them to read, teaching them to use their farming techniques, to become Christians, to become what they deemed as “civilized.” “For example, Cherokee women, whose culture called for them to be in charge of the farming, were required to change their focus to domestic duties, including household management of chores and the children. It became the man’s duty to be in charge of farming.” (P1Angles&Ghost) One of the biggest turning points between Native Americans and the White settlers was when the found gold in Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi. “the Trail of Tears, a result of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, President Andrew Jackson, enforced the Act by removing five tribes (the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles) to relocate west of the Mississippi River (Goldfield, 2014).” (P2Angles&Ghost) But, later on in life most Native