How did columbus get it all wrong?

Columbus was an Italian Sea voyager and an adventurer who imagined that earth was flat and he also felt that Europe was wider and Japan was the farthermost country from china.  

He finally thought that he reached Asia, but the land he jumped upon was not Asia but South America.

The new land in North America was found by an English pioneer John Cabot, but at that time British were colonizing America and the supremacy of the British made Native Americans turn towards Columbus and acclaim him to be their idol and not Cabot and that’s the reason why Washington is the District of Columbia and not District of Cabot. Columbus was not a rich man but he did not die out of poverty.

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the northwest territory became the most densely populated area in the u.s.

booker t. washington was an educator who established the tuskegee institute. washington argued that african americans should learn trades that would offer them the opportunity to be progressive citizens. instead of fighting against discrimination, washington argued that african americans should use their education and knowledge to become self-sufficient in american society and not in competition with white americans.

w.e.b du bois was the founder of the niagara movement and later the naacp, du bois disagreed with washington. he argued that african americans should consistently fight for racial equality.

ida b. wells was a journalist who wrote about the horrors of lynching in the south. wells work could be considered muckraking as it led to the development of the anti-lynching campaign.