How The Painful Result Of British Colonialism

The Painful Result of British Colonialism A study by National Geographic suggest that when New England colonists first arrived at Plymouth rock in 1620, the population of Native Americans was 18 million; by the year 1622, almost 90% of the population had been eliminated. It all began when the New England colonists landed on Plymouth in 1620. The colonists had started to build a colony when they met Massasoit. Massasoit and a man known as William Bradford created a peace treaty between the natives and the colonists. Over time, the colonists and the native people lived in peace, but the Colonists started to become greedy and power hungry when the peace treaty was broken. Once the treaty was broken, the natives were being harassed and treated poorly by the colonists. There were many ways Natives were affected by colonialism, but some of the more known ways that natives were impacted by colonialism were that they were affected by disease, forced to give up their land, and eventually became second hand citizens.
In the PBS documentary ‘WE SHALL REMAIN- AFTER THE MAYFLOWER¨, the narrator says British disease caused the death of 90% of the Native population. This shows us that before the British had gotten here the Natives were just fine and it was only after the British had settled that Natives started suffering. Not only that but Natives had no sorts of immunity since they had never been exposed to smallpox and other diseases that the British had brought. Also because of the many encounters that the Natives had with the British resulted in Natives catching the diseases and taking it back to their