Question

What did the Europeans give in return? Within 20 years European disease and treachery had decimated the Wampanoags. Most diseases then came from animals that Europeans had domesticated. Cowpox from cows led to smallpox, one of the great killers of our people, spread through gifts of blankets used by infected Europeans. Some estimate that diseases accounted for a death toll reaching 90 percent in some Native American communities. By 1623, Mather the elder, a Pilgrim leader, was giving thanks to his God for destroying the heathen savages to make way "for a better growth," meaning his people.

How does Keeler use logic in this paragraph from “Thanksgiving: A Native American View”?

A.She uses statistics and details about disease to show how badly the Europeans treated the American Indians.
B. She quotes Mather to make readers feel angry with the Pilgrims.
C. She uses such terms as “treachery” and “decimated” to prove that the Pilgrims were bad to the American Indians.
D. She uses the statistic of a 90 percent death toll to prove that the Pilgrims were bad people.

Answer 1

The correct answer is A) she uses statistics and details about disease to show how badly Europeans treated the American Indians.

Keeler uses logic in this paragraph from "Thanksgiving: A Native American View." She uses statistics and details about disease to show how badly Europeans treated the American Indians.

In the excerpt, the author refers that most of diseases that affected Native Americans such as the Wampanoag, came from the animals the European domesticated, Then she gives numbers of the Native American people death, almost 90% percent in some communities.

Jaqueline Keeler, a Native American Woman, wrote the essay "Thanksgiving: A Native American View," to express the point of view of American Indians on the European colonization of America.

Answer 2

A.She uses statistics and details about disease to show how badly the Europeans treated the American Indians.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Europeans were colonizers and with this colonization came devastation for the native americans that lived in this area, they didn´t know at the time but the diseases they brought were lethal against the immunology systems of the native americans because they had never seen anything like that. They didn´t do that on purpose but they did see native americans as un-civilized tribal, second class humans.