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Natives
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- THERE ARE ALMOST NO RELATIVES OF INDIGENOUS AMERICANS IN THE CURRENT DAY
- A STUDY IN 2012 FOUND THAT ONLY 2% OF THE POPULATION OF THE USA ARE DECENDANTS OF NATIVE AMERICANS
- BEFORE COLONISATION THERE WERE AN ESTIMATED 3.8 - 18 MILLION NATIVES
- THE EUROPEANS BELIEVED THE NATIVES WERE AN OBSTACLE AND SHOULD BE GOTTEN RID OF TO MANIFEST DESTINY
- THE AMERICAS USED TO BE FULL OF NATIVE AMERICANS THRIVING AND LIVING IN PEACE.
- NICE SHOT LASS
- BUT WHEN THE EUROPEANS ARRIVED AT THE COAST OF THE USA...
- We finally arrived at the promised land
- AFTER FULLY EXPLORING
- LESH GOOOOO
- THEY BROUGHT UNFAMILIAR DISEASES THAT THE NATIVES DID NOT HAVE A RESISTANCE TO
- WE WOULD LIKE TO TRADE GOODS AND STUFF
- I AM VERY SICK RIGHT NOW
- THEY BROUGHT DISEASES LIKE SMALLPOX, MEASLES, AND THE FLU WHICH THE NATIVES DIDNT HAVE A BUILT RESISTANCE TO
- Manifest Destinybelief that the expansion of the United States throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable
- THE EUROPEANS DECIDED TO FORCEFULLY EVICT THE CHEROKEE PEOPLE FROM THEIR HOMELAND
- THIS COINED THE NAME THE TRAIL OF TEARS
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