Should We Celebrate Columbus Day Research Paper

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Should we Celebrate Columbus Day? The United States celebrates Columbus Day as the day that Christopher Columbus ‘Discovered’ America, in 1492, and the holiday can be traced back to the 18th century (History.com Editors, 2024). However, there were already Native Americans living in America before Christopher Columbus came. Not only did Christopher Columbus ‘discover’ America, but he and his crew forced the Native Americans already living there into slavery, and ruined their way of life. Additionally, they brought along fast spreading diseases such as smallpox and influenza. Diseases in which Native Americans did not have to deal with before, nor did they know how to handle, nor were their bodies able to fight back against them (History.com