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What happened to the Native Americans when the Europeans arrived?
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When the Europeans arrived, thousands of Native Americans died of smallpox. Not only that, but Europeans slaughtered thousands of Natives under the order of President Andrew Jackson. The surviving Native Americans were forced on to reservations.
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∙ 13y agoWhen the Europeans arrived, thousands of Native Americans died of smallpox. Not only that, but Europeans slaughtered thousands of Natives under the order of President Andrew Jackson. The surviving Native Americans were forced on to reservations.
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When did the first pioneers come into Canada?
I would think that they originally entered what is known as Canada today along a port town of the Northern Atlantic Coast.
Europeans attempted to enslave when they first encountered them in the New World?
Native Americans.
Who lived in the America's before the Europeans arrived?
Various indigenous peoples, collectively known as the Native Americans. These people were not a single homogeneous nation, but were divided into many tribes and people groups, such as the Iroquois, Algonquins, Apaches, and Blackfeet.Over 500 tribes of Native Americans, whose ancestors migrated over a "land bridge" from Asia after the last Ice Age, during prehistory.Native Americans, the majority of which died of diseases (e.g. smallpox, measles, mumps) within a few years of the arrival of the first European explorers. Thus when the colonists arrived the land was almost empty of people.Natives or Indians
The Columbian Exchange refers to the exchange of goods between?
Native Americans (North and South) and Europeans.
Why did Europeans view African slaves as a better a source of labor than Native Americans?
There are 3 Answers! Be sure to get them all.AnswerAfricans were immune to the conditions and diseases. It was because the africans were already in contact with the europeans when they had started trading with one another. Europeans felt they could indur the climate because of their skin color. Many Native Americans started to die off because of the diseases. Alot of the native Americans also started to escape,fight back, and many of them died off. They also felt that Africans were cheaper. AnswerThe Native Americans were less resistant to the diseases that the Europeans brought over. The Portuguese and other sailors had already made the selling of African slaves an established trade. In North America, the settlers initially weren't in a position to take Native Americans as slaves because they lived a precarious existence that needed to be at peace with the Natives to continue. AnswerThere were more Africans available and the Europeans found it more pracitcal to buy Africans from Africans than to attempt to capture "Native Americans."
What happened to the natives when europeans arrived?
When the Europeans arrived, thousands of Native Americans died of smallpox. Not only that, but Europeans slaughtered thousands of Natives under the order of President Andrew Jackson. The surviving Native Americans were forced on to reservations.
What did the native Americans die from after the Europeans arrived?
because of diseases
What happened to many native hawaiians Europeans arrived?
They died of disease.
Why did Native Americans declined after Europeans arrived in America?
Much of the decline was due to the fact Native Americans had no natural immunities to European diseases.
When the first europeans settled in America who already lived there?
Native Americans have lived in the Americas for thousands of years before Europeans arrived.
What happened when natives Americans and Europeans met?
thounsands of native americans died of small pox
What caused millions of deaths among native Americans in the years after Europeans arrived in the Americas?
Diseases, largely smallpox, brought by Europeans caused millions of deaths among the native Americans who had no resistance to these foreign diseases.
How did the arrival of europeans affect the native americans in mexico?
The arrival of the Europeans did not affect the native americans in Mexico.
What did the Europeans in the native Americans have in common?
What do Native Americans and Europeans have in common
What is the correct order of the arrivals in America is it the vikings the native Americans then the Europeans?
The Native Americans arrived in America when the crossed the Beiring Strait in prehistoric times. The Vikings arrived prior to the other Europeans in about 1000 CE. Then the rest of Europe (Spain, France, England) arrived during the 16, 17, 18th Century CE
Since Europeans arrived in America they have tended to?
run Native Americans off their land, destroy their culture, and kill them.
Creoles Mestizos Peninsulares and Mulattoes?
They were the 4 classes established in to the native Americans AFTER the Europeans arrived in South America.
