Native American Dbq Research Paper

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Native American DBQ Sky dark as can be and nothing else to see as the Native American population was declining rapidly. The Native American population was on a sharp decline and it was getting worse and worse every day. The Europeans were very destructive against the native’s for many reasons. The reason for the suffering of their population was because of death caused by diseases, starvation, and refusing to change their religion. The first reason will be that the Native Americans died because of diseases. Diseases spread all through the region, killing many natives and the culture was on a downfall. As this magazine talks about the percent of deaths “Arguably, this is the single most powerful explanatory fact in the entire history of the …show more content…
And it got worse and worse. My second reason why the Native Americans died was also because of diseases. With diseases coming through, food was a necessity that was fading away fast. Since everyone was dying, not enough crops were being made. There wasn’t enough food for everyone to eat, “They starved to death because there was no one left alive to care for them,” (Doc. 2). The adage of the adage. The Native Americans could not get a single ounce of food once the Europeans arrived. It just couldn’t get any worse for the Native Americans, “A century later there were only 6 million Native Americans left: a 90 percent fatality rate,” (Dyer). They could do nothing about it and then tried the best that they could to stay alive. My last and final reason for how the Native Americans died was because they refused to convert to Christianity. Natives were burned to death for that reason. They were punished and in Document 5 a picture shows Native Americans being burned for the refusal to change their religion. Natives didn’t want to change their religion so badly they would rather be burned to