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What did europeans do to make Native Americans become extinct?
Many thousands of Native Americans were killed by diseases such as smallpox that was spread to them, intentionally and unintentionally, by white settlers.
What event had the most immediate impact on the Native Americans who lived on the great plains?
The spread of European diseases had the greatest impact on Native Americans. Large numbers were wiped out by these foreign diseases they were unprepared to deal with.
What was the most dramatic effect of European settlers to the native Americans?
The spread of the diseases (such as Small Pox)
How did dance spread?
the dance spread by the NATIVE AMERICANS
What impact did Christopher Columbus have on native Americans?
He brought across foreign diseases which killed off the native Americans. These diseases spread across the country via the natives, quicker than Columbus and his men were travelling. Therefore they even came across settlements where all the natives were already dead.
What killed off most natives as a result of their interaction with white settlers during westward expansion?
Diseases that the white settlers spreaded to the native americans. Diseases that was spread includes chicken pox.
How far did the native Americans spread?
All over America, hense the term "Native Americans."
What did the first discoverers of puerto rico bring to the island?
Diseases that devestated Native Americans. Weapons that devestated Native Americans. Slavery that devestated Native Americans.
What did diseases as smallpox result in?
a decrease in native americans
Bad things people did to the Native Americans?
diseases
What illness did europeans spread to native Americans?
they spread small pox by giving blankets originally owned by people who had small pox to the Native Americans
Did Columbus intentionally bring diseases to the Native Americans?
Of course not. The diseases were most likely carried by stowaway rats. It would have been almost impossible for the diseases to have been spread intentionally because there was little known about the spread of illness at the time. There was no knowledge about germs and virus's in the days of Columbus. He cannot be blamed for the deaths of Native Tribes.
