Why did columbus call the people he met in america "indians"?

The natives of America, also called Native Americans, Native Americans, Native Americans, or in some American Indian countries, in a derogatory manner, are the original inhabitants of America. Under the error of Christopher Columbus, who believed they were in India, the natives were called Indians.

In most European languages, the word Indian is the same for those born in India and for Native American peoples. During the twentieth century, calling Native Americans Indians became something politically incorrect and thus a series of names emerged that were accepted and used until today: Indo-American, indigenous, Native American, Native American.

the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

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the speaker of which statement would be best served by joining an interest group?

i want politicians to make more of an effort for lgbt rights!

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