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Within a short period of time their way of life was changed forever. The changes were caused by a number of factors, including loss of land, disease, enforced laws which violated their culture and much more. When the Europeans arrived they brought with them diseases unknown to the natives.
The story "The Rat and the Mongoose" may help answer this question.
<span>Facts could be items like "The Civil War began in 1861" or "Fort Sumter was in South Carolina" or "Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States." The opinions could be items like "The South was fighting for an ideal it believed in" or "Slavery was a moral good for the South" or "The North was usurping on the sovereignty of the several states."</span>
