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What killed many American Indians?

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The people who came from Europe to the New World. They killed the Native Americans with their foreign diseases and their random slayings. They also forced the Native Americans off of their land and that starved them.

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The biggest killer of Native Americans was the introduction of many diseases that hadn't been in the New World before the arrival of Europeans.

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Disease-smallpox

Alcohol-(rum and Beer)

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Disease of which the Native Americans had no natural immunity.

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