Report: First along the River by Benjamin Kline
In early American society the people were mostly agrarian and expected a certain amount of Voltairean tolerance in there religion, however time would reveal a less than tolerant view of the environment. Beginning 1492 when Columbus in the name of Spain made his way to the East Indies an immediate impact was made on the environment as Columbus turned on the native people who had been very accommodating. Thereafter North American would forever be changed as a result of Columbus’ discovery. The first impact was of course was the virtual annihilation of the native people in south and central America then followed by the removal of the gold and silver in those regions. Soon to follow the Spanish was England and France who both contributed mightily to the degradation of both the native species and the timber in North America. American or rather Old World ideas of the time put man as the controlling factor in nature, and that idea helped to deplete nature to the point where it could no longer produce. In the south the plantation system virtually emptied the soil of its nutrients, Dr. Kline explains it best as “by the 18th century Virginia began suffering low yields, as the best lands were eroding from overuse.”(18) It seems that the col
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Approximate Word count = 1803
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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