Benefits and Drawbacks of European and Native Interaction
The interaction that occurred between the Europeans and the Native Americans had many benefits and drawbacks including the spread of disease from the Europeans to the Native population, disagreements or misunderstandings, and benefited through sharing of cultural traditions and knowledge. The diseases that the Europeans unknowingly brought with them killed more Native Americans than any war or battle that occurred between the Europeans and the Native Americans. Conflict between the Europeans and the Native Americans started with a misunderstanding between Columbus's men and a native tribe and word spread that this foreign group was not as peaceful as they may have thought. Disagreements over territory kindled the flames and pushed much of the native population to fight back against the Europeans. A benefit from the European and Native American encounter is the sharing of knowledge and cultural customs such as canoes, agricultural techniques, and methods of building huts so that large storms do not lay waste to them. The Native Americans traded with the Europeans and acquired many new technologically advanced things such as the an early style of the musket. The interaction between the Europeans and Native Americans was both beneficial and harmful to both groups of people.
Patriots, Loyalists and Neutral Points of View
The different stances you could take during the revolutionary war depended a great deal on where your loyalty stood it also altered your point of view on may subjects. For the most part Patriots saw that the crown as overbearing and did not feel he had the right to tax the colonies without fair representation in British Parliament. Loyalists saw the taxation as a fair way to pay off the debt of a war fought to protect not just Britain but the colonies as well. The neutralists generally feared the British might take advantage of the colonies but also feared the Colonies would not be much better than Britain was if they managed to successfully secede from Britain.
Long Term Causes of The Civil War
The long term causes of the civil war can be divided into three groups political, social and economic. A political cause of the Civil War was the Dred Scott case, which ruled that blacks whether free or slave were not allowed to be civilians in the U.S. and therefore cannot sue in federal courts, this caused widespread outrage and caused many public debates either for or against the decision and sparked many people to take sides for or against slavery. Economic differences between the more industrialized North and more agricultural based South was the main problem in the Civil War. Southern states needed slaves to work their fields and the North, which was much less dependent on cheap labor, told the South it is not right to hold other human beings as property. A social cause was the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe which questioned the ability to own other human beings as slaves, and "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War."