1.How did contact between the European arrivals and the native peoples of the Americas affect both groups? Contact between the European and the native people affected both in many ways. The European came to America and brought many diseases. This affected the native people because they had no immunity. As a result millions of people died, this caused society to weaken. The Europeans affected the natives in a positive way by introducing them to crops (such as sugar and bananas), domestic livestock
However, as superpowers took over territories, they did not only take advantage of the resources but also the labor the people could offer. Native populations were exploited and made into harsh labor forces. The prime example would be the exploitation of the Belgium Congo Free State under King Leopold II. The natives were forced to mine diamonds under unimaginable conditions with little in return. King Leopold's Ghost describes capitalism taken affect in
Americans to Africans brought over on boats, the slave played an integral part of the colonization and expansion of the United States. John W. Blassingame’s The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Antebellum South focuses mainly on the African slave in the south, and the affects they had on the United States. He tries to give insight and information on not only the physical inequalities of the African slave but also how they mentally survived the ordeal that will come to define the history of the South
Chapter 4 | American Life in the Seventeenth Century 1. “Describe the basic population structure and social life of the seventeenth-century colonies.” The social structure in the South started with the plantation owners on top, then small farmers, followed by landless Whites, and finally Black slaves. In 1676 in Virginia, a rebellion occurred that was led by Nathaniel Bacon who tried to combat their low social standing and were also dislikes Governor William Berkeley’s friendly policies towards the