Answer:
It depends on what you have been taught, but I would personally say negative because of the diseases that destroyed Native Americans and the rise of slavery.
On the flip side, if you're thinking of positive, it did help exchange new ideas and goods (the Columbian Exchange) between the worlds. It also allowed a safe haven for those persecuted (like the Protestants) and allowed countries to dump their inmates onto the new land.
Answer:
The first answer "The government had failed to protect the colonists' basic rights." is correct
Explanation:
This would be correct because this excerpt is talking about the fundamental rights that they were born with (But for some reasons slaves were denied these "Basic human rights")
