Most of the decimation of the Native American population after 1500 resulted from the need for more and more land. The Colonists and others came to America and literally pushed the Native Americans off of their homelands.
disease and massacres
The decimation of the Amazon Rain Forest - the slash and burn policy of opening new lands and the decimation of plant and animal habitat
By the late 1500s, the introduction of African slaves was absorbed to north America. (Scientific American)
The great growth of the African American population in South America first began around 1720.
coffee
Slave trade and the Middle Passage.
the increase in tobacco production
what is America African
what is America African
The slaves brought over from africa from the 1600s to the 1800s.
African Americans are a population of people residing in and are citizens of the United States of America. Many people who have an African lineage identify with this with this name.