America's First People and European Immigrants

What do you think the size of the native population was, compared to the number of European Settlers?

This maps reflects the population of the native american tribes that live in the U.S in 1783. Many different Native American groups lived on the East Coast of what would become United States. Their names are known to most Americans... the Senecas, the Mohawks, the Seminole, the Cherokee to name only a few.

The previous map changed drastically as more European immigrants arrived to the new world. In the following map you can see how the territories were reduce to almost non existent. This was because of the different ideologies the native american tribes had and the ones of the new inhabitants of the land , the European settlers. For natives, nobody could own the land, but for Europeans, the possession of land meant wealth and power. 

Let's remember the reasons why these people were coming to the new world they later called the United States:

1. First of all freedom of religion.
2. The chance to rise.
3. To own land
4. To become wealthy.

As more Europeans arrived in the east coast, the place became more crowded, and native americans were forced to move West. Many might wonder, why didn't they live together? Well, European settlers felt justified in taking Native Americans land because they felt they were making the land more productive.

Treaties forced millions of Native Americans onto reservations which were small pieces of government land set aside for Native Americans. Many tribes put resistance, but they had been outnumbered, and the congress passed a law: The Indian Removal Act.

The native American were not only removed, its population was also reduced. Many Native Americans were killed by diseases brought by western settlers

Numerous diseases were brought to Native American tribes including:

•Measles

•Scarlet fever

•Typhoid

•Influenza

•Pertussis (whooping cough)

•Tuberculosis

•Diphtheria

•Chickenpox 

Moreover, they had become a minority and the Europeans were the majority. The native Americans were forced into assimilation. Children were sent to boarding schools to learn how to read and write and learn the customs and culture of the European. 

In this Slideshow you will learn more about the Native Americans

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