Question

Create a Top Five list of European colonization’s most impactful changes on Native Americans. Explain your reasoning for the item you ranked as the #1 most impactful change. Post your list from Step One and your reasoning for your #1 answer from Step Two in the Discussion area. Respond to two students’ postings by agreeing or disagreeing with their lists. Explain why you agree or disagree with their judgment of colonization’s most impactful changes. Review the discussion guidelines before posting to the Discussion area. Copy and paste your original post and your responses to the two students and add this to the student comments box in the Assessment area.

Answer 1

The most impactful changes to Native American populations done by the colonial settlement was:  
1 - the disease - smallpox and influenza killed almost 90% American Native population 2. extermination policies - by hunting them, the population was in decline3. Territory - the colonists took their land4. forced relocation policies - the colonits forced them to stay in some special place, no leaving, starving them5. coexistence reasoning - the differences between colonist and Native believes