Question

Create a Top Five list of European colonization’s most impactful changes on Native Americans.
Explain your reasoning for the item you ranked as the #1 most impactful change.

Answer 1

1. French 2. Spanish 3. British 4. Portuguese 5. Netherlands(I think)

Answer 2

Acually Spanish would be 1 and french would be 2

Answer 3

So for sure 1. Spanish 2. French 3. British 4. Portuguese 5.Netherlands.

Answer 4

look at what one person put:Top Five of European Impacts on Native American’s

1.Disease
2.Population Decline
3.Land
4.Peaceful Coexistence
5.Horses

Reasoning-
I chose disease as the greatest impact because millions died because the Europeans brought the diseases in the first place. Within a few decades 50%-80% had died already. It caused the greatest impact on the Native Americans because so many had died due to the unknown diseases the Europeans unknowingly brought.

Answer 5

Well you also cant forget the conquest and murdering of the native americans. The spanish conquestedors made 2 native american tribes extinct.

Answer 6

Oh and thanksgiving dinner with pilgrims.. Well that was poisioning of the native americans to steal their resources.

Answer 7

this is my lesson:02.01 Impact of Colonization—Impact to Native Americans

Religion

One of the motives for settling the New World was to spread Christianity to the Native Americans. Spanish and French Catholics worked as missionaries to convert the natives. In general, the French did not try to change the Native American customs as much as the Spanish missionaries did. Some natives were receptive to Christianity, while others had religion forced upon them.

“I had [the Aztec] idols … thrown down the steps …[I had images of Our Lady and of other saints put there, which caused [their leader] and the other natives some sorrow … They believed that those idols gave them all their worldly goods.” Hernán Cortés, 1520
Population Decline

When Spanish conquistadors first settled in the New World, they enslaved many Native Americans. They used Native Americans for farming and mining for gold and silver. Hard labor and malnutrition led to the deaths of many Native Americans. In addition to the maltreatment Native Americans faced, diseases unknowingly brought by Europeans also depleted the population. Native Americans did not have immunities to fight off these diseases, which led millions to die. Experts estimate that 50 percent to 80 percent of Native Americans died in the first few decades after European contact.

“After the wars and the killings had ended, when usually there survived only some boys, some women, and children, these survivors were distributed among the Christians to be slaves.” Bartolomé de las Casas, Spanish missionary, 1552
Land

With the colonists and Native Americans occupying the same lands, competition for space was inevitable. Hunting in the same forests and fishing in the same streams led to a depletion of animals available for food. As a result, many Native Americans had to leave their ancestral lands to search for more food. In addition, the demand for agricultural products led many European settlers to clear forests to make room to plant. This depleted Native American hunting grounds, forcing them off the land they occupied. The Native American tribes were independent of one another, so they were slow to unify in their battles against European settlers.

“Why take by force what you may quietly have by love?” Chief Powhatan, 1607
Peaceful Coexistence

Native Americans benefitted from trade with European settlers, gaining previously unavailable goods. Both sides benefitted from the exchange of goods and knowledge. European settlers learned from the Native Americans how to grow American crops, where to hunt, and how to survive. Native Americans learned about new tools, weapons, animals, and farming methods from the settlers. There are many examples of peaceful coexistence between the Native Americans and the colonists, including the first Thanksgiving. Without assistance from the natives, the Pilgrims may not have survived.

“Many of the Indians came to visit us … We entertained and feasted them for three days. The Indians went out and killed five deer, which they presented to our governor.” Edward Winslow, a Pilgrim settler in Plymouth, Massachusetts, describing the first Thanksgiving in 1621