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How Did European Countries Interact With The Colonization Of America
As I read through the colonization of America, I feel sad for America that how different European countries experimented with colonization of America. Some tried to force religion, some tried to force slavery, and some brought diseases. How unstable the life was for Native Americans and it was a struggle to adapt the rigors of colonization. How Britain imposed controls on its American possessions. And Slavery increased as the demand for manpower increased with booming economy.
In this era of colonization, during 16th to 17t century, three types of colonies took shape in America, which definitely changed the life of Native Americans. This was a period of a New American World. Slavery was given a new definition under English law. For example, in 1662, a Virginia Statute declared, “all children borne in this country shall be held bond or free only according to the condition of mother”. This led to confusion and doubts whether children got by an Englishman upon a negro woman should be slave or free. This was an interesting turn in law, when a woman won the case, whose
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I believe this changed the way Native American lived their lives. Two great empires of America became the core of an astonishingly wealthy European empire. I guess this became the strength of European rulers, which made them explore further and led to their success. But as they started to prosper, Native American suffered with the diseases that Europeans brought with them and this wiped out the 90% of the Native American populations. This movement of diseases and people across Atlantic was part of a larger pattern of biological transformation, which was called as Columbian Exchange. When the plantation colonies developed, England started to prosper and Spain’s economy deteriorated. England also started tobacco colonies, which made him prosper more than his

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