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1. Columbus is worthy of celebration by all Americans because he represents our ancestry.
2. Celebrating Columbus Day is a continuous way of saying "We're proud to be Americans, and equally proud of our Italian heritage and ancestry."
3. 57 percent of Americans believe that it's a good idea to have a holiday named for him.
4. Columbus was a man whose approach to the native people he met during his first voyage was exemplary, taking delight in their friendliness and happy demeanor.
5. He practically defines our understanding of the spirit of discovery is himself worth rediscovering, and worth teaching, with both truth and objectivity.
At the early stages of the colonies the exchanges between the Natives and the settlers was fairly one-sided, meaning that the Natives taught the settlers how to harvest and survive, and the settlers taught the Natives very little.
He vetoed it for various reasons. For starters, he believed that it was a thing up to individual states and that it infringed on the states right to choose. Another reason was that he believed that such beneficial extension would not make people equal, but rather it would be racist towards the white people. His main argument, however, was that the bill would have a certain group gain rights that they are not entitled to, while a large part of the states does not even have representation in the congress, and that the congress needs to be enlarged first.
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