Question

What were the consequences of the European colonization of eastern North America?

Answer 1

ANSWER:

• The Europeans came into conflicts with native peoples because of different beliefs about land use.

• The land of Natives was also taken and many of them had no place to live so they were forced onto reservations.

EXPLANATION:

• The Europeans arrived in North America and with their arrival; they brought changes to practically every part of its people and land.

• Trade, hunting, wars, ideas were brought by the European settlers to the continent which shaped the continent to what it is now.

• The natives didn’t believe in the idea of owning land privately. Instead, they believed that land as a resource to be used commonly for the benefit of both parties.

• But, the colonizers made their land private by building fences around their property and clashing with the natives.

• The lands where natives used to hunt and take natural resources were now a private property of the colonizers.