The first colony was Jamestown
I would say the people of central America would be descendants from native groups, such as the Aztecs, Mayans, etc., as well as the Spaniards.
Answer:
Indigenous groups and Spanish
After the Civil War (1861-1865), the land was divided into small parcels and started to be rented or sharecropped. At that time slavery was condemned, so former slaves became those sharecroppers who rented the land of plantations in order to stand for a living by producing and sharing the crops. The owners or the new sharecropped demolished slaves’ old housing and built new ones near the main house. Besides, owners had to start paying taxes in cash which produced an impoverishment of plantations.