U.S History- European Colonization

European colonization had a huge impact on North America. This impact had an disturbing impact on the native population. In a small period of time the native’s way of life was changed forever. The changes were caused by many of factors, including loss of land, disease, enforced laws which violated their culture, food and self sufficiency. When the Europeans arrived they brought with them various disease to the natives such as smallpox. The natives had no immunity to these different diseases and died but these diseases were common to the Europeans and had little to no effect. No one thought much about immunity to diseases, or that they would kill off the entire bison population When the Europeans arrived they also brought guns, alcohol and horses. Since the Europeans brought these items and exposing the natives to this it change the way of life for example hunting and gathering food. Since the cultural groups had been based on their method of survival, changing this cased the native tribes to change as well. Some of the tribes start to move causing fights over territories. Food also became an issue because for the natives because of the Europeans way of hunting and gathering. Religions were introduced, and Natives were being forced to switch to Christianity. With the force of religion this change caused the native culture to change. Native did not like the fact that someone was taking over the land and stating it to belong to one person. Wars began between the native and Europeans over land and hunting because the natives were being uprooted and told they could only live and hunt in a certain area. The impact on North American was widely spread and it was because of the European greed to take what they wanted and to control over others that were not the same as them. Later, things changed, and an effort was made to completely restrain the Native culture. This active restraint took on many forms. Certain tribes were generously supplied with guns, so that