Good or Bad that English/French Came to North America

“The population before the early contact was twenty-seven million and then by 1650, the population decreased to one million. This was cause by violence, disease, and overwork.” Imagine all of Canada getting wiped off this earth. That is what happened to the Native people of the seventeenth century. How could someone argue that it was not the Europeans who had the biggest factor on the decrease of population? When the Europeans came over, they brought diseases that the natives had not have been exposed to before. So, they were not immune to them so they died from the common cold and other small diseases that only made the Europeans sick. Also, the Europeans came and wanted the land for themselves and the Natives had to fight for the land. They lost many times and many men were killed from these battles. When the natives lost their battles, many were used as sla

Trade caused disaster for the native people. As soon as the Europeans found that there was beaver and many other great animals in North America, the trade business had begun. English and French set up trading posts all over Canada. This just brought disaster to the Natives. Their lifestyle changed greatly. 9“ But the Indian trappers the trade became a part of everyday life.” They used to just kill as many animals as they needed to survive. Now that the trade wanted beaver, bison, and elk, they hunted them much more. 10“ String fish nets and steal traps increased the kill, but the gun, so welcomed by the tribes, changed everything.” The gun made it much easier to kill their prey because they could be very far away and still kill the prey. Most natives know revolved their life around trade. The Europeans brought over Iron, alcohol, netting-twine, ice-chisels, fiddles, sewing machines, canvas, and kerosene were things that the natives had never seen before. Many loved alcohol and got addicted and the need to increase their killing of animals to get more alcohol. 11“ For the Indian people the coming of liquor was one of the worst parts of the fur trade, for it destroyed pride, independence, and common sense. They also needed the other things to survive so they depended on the fur trade. This was horrible because the way they were going they would kill most animals by the next century. In the north, some tribes died of starvation because they had no animals to eat because they had all been trapped. 12“ All through the 1800 groups of people died of starvation in northern Quebec and Labrador.” This was a huge disaster in the native’s way of life.

Death from war and fighting was another huge factor from the first contact with the Europeans. The Europeans brought over guns

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