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Christopher Columbus Columbus Day Constituent Letter To my Colorado constituent, In congress today, there was a vote whether or not to keep Columbus Day as a National Holiday. The majority of my fellow Congressmen wanted to revise Columbus Day, and make it an explorers day. However, I am in favor of Columbus Day, because the way our nation has flourished is partly due to him. Below I will try to explain to all of my fellow Colorado constituents why I felt this way. The first thing that comes to my mind about Columbus is the way he governed the Native Americans. Although Columbus might have been brutal and cruel in his ways, He established the first true government that the Native Americans ever had. He brought order to the Native Americans lives and established a huge part of government that is still used today, Currency. We should continue celebrating Columbus Day for governing our country. Columbus also brought slavery to America. Columbus did not bring any slaves form the Old World or from Africa, he only used Native Americans. Columbus was only exercising the idea of slavery that had been going on for thousands of years before Columbus arrived in America. Slavery was needed to help columbus, america, day, americans, people, native, brought, should, first, way, today, slavery, part, nation, might, mexican, making, fellow, diseases, been, world, working, without, vaccines, spanish, revolutionized, remembered, person, over, order, new, national, make, majority, living, lives