After 100 years of exposure to European settlers, it is estimated that Native American populations declined by about 90% due to factors such as disease, warfare, displacement, and assimilation policies. This significant decline left only a fraction of the original populations intact. By the late 19th century, many tribes had been reduced to small remnant groups, with some tribes facing near extinction. The exact portion remaining varied by region and tribe, but the overall impact was devastating.
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The warm climate of the Tidewater region provided ideal agricultural conditions to grow crop for both Native Americans and European settlers alike. European settlers cultivated crops such as cotton, sugar, and rice to export to England.
Native Americans were forced to adopt "European" or "Christian" names by the settlers. These same settlers saw a problem with with names such as Moose Dung (A Ojibwa tribal leader c.1860).
Diseases such as smallpox which they had no immunity to because of foreign European settlers.
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The Native Americans had land. The European Settlers wanted it. That is not just the "most likely" cause, that is the cause.
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Native Americans were more likely to die from the diseases that European settlers brought to America because they had less immunity to these diseases than the settlers did.
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The warm climate of the Tidewater region provided ideal agricultural conditions to grow crop for both Native Americans and European settlers alike. European settlers cultivated crops such as cotton, sugar, and rice to export to England.
Native Americans were forced to adopt "European" or "Christian" names by the settlers. These same settlers saw a problem with with names such as Moose Dung (A Ojibwa tribal leader c.1860).
natural grassland; fields of corn
loss of land
Diseases such as smallpox which they had no immunity to because of foreign European settlers.
The Spanish were the first European settlers in Florida.
Blacks and Native Americans