Chapter 14 Part 1

Reading about how the English came to the Americas and took what wasn't really theirs frustrated me. I have sympathy for the Native Americans and I just feel bad for them! Columbus and his crew came to America and believed that it was their manifest destiny to control the country and anyone who stood in their way. When the diseases that the English brought over began to kill off the Native Americans, they also believed that it was all happening because of God's will. Because God was a vengeful guy who wanted to practically kill off one human race so another could succeed. That Columbus was so cocky and rude towards the hospitable Native Americans is why he is now viewed as a pillaging pirate.