Causes And Effects Of Europeans Coming To America

During the sixteenth century European pilgrims migrated across the Atlantic Ocean to settle in North America. North America had just been introduced to the Western Civilization. The America’s were home to the indigenous people, that were made up of several tribes that were called Indians by the early settlers. Together the Indians and settlers began to thrive. Growth and development in the new world was made possible by the abundant amount of natural resources.

Native Americans lived on the North American continent centuries before the arrival of Europeans. These native groups developed and preserved cultural traditions. Many European explorers traveled to the New World around the 1500s in search for God, gold, and glory. This brought them into contact with the Native Americans, and led to a complete change in their lifestyle. Europeans brought the Natives diseases, forced them to relocate, and altered their cultures. All in all, the Europeans left a devastating impact on the Native Americans.

Native Americans had many encounters with Europeans, one of which involving the French. They first came into contact with each other around the 1600s and were predominantly civil. In fact, compared to all the other Europeans who came to America, I believe that they had the most pleasant of interactions. The French primarily traded with local natives when they first

Major ramifications of Europeans coming to America: “What the Dutch had taken from the Portuguese, the English seized in part from the Dutch. This was equally true in the New World, where the English and French superseded the Dutch challenge to Portuguese and Spanish hegemony in the Caribbean in the eighteenth century.” (Alder & Pouwels 2015, p. 316). Another major ramification was the introduction of diseases to the small Amerindian villages. They had never been exposed to things like smallpox, measles, and influenza. The newcomers brought an epidemic the villages with no immunities or vaccinations “80 to 90 percent of native populations” (p. 319) were killed.

As time went on many of the settlers avoided the Indians all together. This forced the natives to start trade with the French

On 1492, Christopher Columbus was the first person who found North American. After that, European people increasingly started to go North American and they tried to survive in the new world. But North America still had many native Americans to live there. So in my opinion, when Europeans found native Americans and Europeans began to comprehend native American’s living habits. But Europeans came to America that had positive impact and also still had negative impact to native Americans.

American history frequently centers on the issues of ethnic diversity and resource allocation. In the contemporary, we begin to see the experiences of the Native inhabitants of the Americas in contrast to European settlers and colonizers, is a prime example of this process in motion. When European settlers first arrived to the New World in the 15th century, firstly the Spanish, they brought with them a material cultural based upon an economic standard of resource exploitation, which in a sense was hostile to most of the Native peoples of the Americas. For instance, as Blackhawk notes that, Europeans built permanent settlements consisting of immovable structures, whereas many of the Great Basin peoples were semi-migratory in nature. Additionally, as Europeans claimed possession over the land, its resources, and began a process of territorial delimitation, Native peoples whose lives

The Native Americans sustained and took care of their home, while the Europeans pushed and pulled for more money to fall from it. This caused the land to lose a lot of its density and eventually the Europeans’ wealth as well. Things that were lost were proper farming grounds, culture of the Native Americans, and wild life. Different views of the Europeans and Native Americans caused a lot of conflict. The Europeans’ views on the Indians’ way of life became critical once they saw and felt as if their society was not controlled

Before Europeans ever ventured to North America, the land had been populated by Native American nations that had their own distinct cultures and social structures. Native Americans had trade routes and established complex relationships between tribes. They were not merely heathens waiting to be civilized by the Europeans. Yet, Europeans would use those justifications to lay claim on their land.

Edward Waterhouse says that “...they came unarmed into our houses, without bows or arrows, or other weapons, with deer turkeys, fish, furs, and other provisions to sell...” trade was a common practice with the indians (Document 2). The Europeans would have died with the indians help. In Jamestown that leading cause of death, but the colony was able to succeed and grow with better leadership that saw that the only way to live was to receive help from the Indians. The indians in turn help the europeans, but that would be their ultimate downfall.

Indigenous people in the Americas or “Indians” as Christopher Columbus first named them on an exploration voyage in 1492, had their lives completely change almost immediately upon the arrival of European settlers. Settlement in the “New World” as

Philbrick describes how the Pilgrims traded with the Native Americans. The Native Americans received guns and weapons, while the Pilgrims traded for pelts and seeds. Everything seemed friendly between the local Native Americans and the Pilgrims; they even shared a Thanksgiving together, marking the end of a year in America. However, as time went on tensions between the Native Americans and the Pilgrims grew high and war became imminent. Philbrick describes how the Pilgrims tried to protect themselves; they built a wall around their civilization and prepared a militia. However, after years of tension between the two groups war broke out, since the Pilgrims had “…begun to take the Indians for granted” (Philbrick 215). Philip states how “…the English put at risk everything their mothers and fathers had striven so heroically to create” (Philbrick 215). During the war the Pilgrims began to force the once friendly tribes to turn against them, destroying the friendship they had once shared. Near the end of the war and even after the war the Pilgrims sent the Native Americans into slavery. Eventually, the number of Native Americans tribes would dwindle. One tribe, the Sakonnets went from “… an estimated four hundred in 1700 [people] to just six men and nineteen women by 1774” (Philbrick 350). Philbrick depicts the Pilgrims as courageous people who sacrificed

One of the biggest effects of the Trans-Atlantic trade was slavery. The Europeans immigrating to the New World carried many diseases such as smallpox that the Indians were never exposed to, and were subsequently

French and Dutch fur traders got along well with Native Americans. This was an uncommon occurrence because the traders, explorers and conquistadors thought they had all the power and didn’t need to get along with the Native Americans or anyone else for that matter. Something a little more common during this time was English settlers and Native Americans disagreeing over land and religion. Hostility as such often broke out into war. The explorers didn’t care how they treated others because they were greedy.

In 1620, the first batch of European settlers come to New England area. They are hoping to live peacefully with Indians since the settlers demand to receive food and supplies from the Indians. Meanwhile, the new immigrants clearly understand that they are weak and inferior. Once if they have conflicts with Indians, they have no chance to win the battle. Another major reason that French and Britain need to ally with Native Americans in the early 17th century is because the idea of mercantilism. Since they believe that the wealth of nation should mainly from trading, both nations want to have more profit from fur trading. European settlers and Indians also exchange crops, tools, and know-how. Likewise, Indians want the new immigrants to be their allies to defeat enemies in the future days. However, the problems egress inevitably. Because of the largely different beliefs on lands owning and religion, even more migration of population, and external diseases, European settlers and Indians break their peace and enter wars soon after.