Industrialism In Native Americans

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The Americas, untouched for so long by large scale industrialism, began to lose key components of being American, which lied in its native plants. Trees native to the Americas ran rampant in the surrounding landscape, began to become depleted with the growing timber industry. The Europeans justification was that England’s population of native trees was dwindling, and the Americas had an abundance. Thus they should be allowed to take what they want, much to the dismay of the natives. A native girl recounted to the Europeans about her life in the Americas, surrounded by wild roses and the rushing river . The native girl is showing her magnificent home, showing expressing how treasured the land is to her. She is willing to give up a wampum band…show more content…
The Native Americans lived well, having families and creating tribes that grew. Yet the progress was slow going, and they were able to accommodate for a growing population with intuitive hunting skills and a healthy lifestyle. The Europeans were coming to the Americas from what would be considered luxury, where beavers were made into fine coats and large meals were commonplace . All the while, the population in Europe grew, allowing for the growing demand from the colonies. With more people across the pond, more resources were needed from the colonies to make consumer goods in Europe. With more people needed to harvest the raw materials, more people began entering the colonies, which opened up another consumer market. The colonists in American began to have a taste for British goods, choosing only to purchase imported goods from England and abroad . The growing cycle of people coming into the colonies meant more land being cultivated and used for new purposes was one of the biggest degradations to the land in…show more content…
During the early parts of the slave trade, only smaller vessels were coming to the Americas, particularly the Bahamas, to have slaves work the land in the sugar plantations. Due to the high demand of the treat from the Europeans, more and more slaves were needed in the islands to work. Add in the fact that mortality rates were high, and thus the need for more slaves. More and more ships began to traverse between the colonies and Africa, and in their wake came another source of degradation. The journey for the Africans was an arduous one, filled with little food and little light. Illness was rampant and overcrowding on ships was required for the traders to make a profit . Slaves began dying, and the only place to dump the bodies became the ocean. Men and women thrown overboard to meet their demise. Some were even thrown over alive, due to the threat of sharks following the slave ships. This threw the balance of the earth in two spots. One was an unusual number of human bodies being dumped into a place where they usually were not. This threw off the balance of the animal life, such as more sharks eating human remains. This leads to the second component which was the increasing number of sharks following slave ships. To the sharks, this was an almost unlimited food source that was supplied throughout the entire journey to the Americas.
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