The Native Americans were subjected to many foreign diseases and were also forced out of their native land. Their population also decreased due to European enslavement. British settlers purchased and captured Native Americans to use as forced labour in making tobacco, rice and indigo.
Europeans saw the lands in the Americas as free for the taking. The Native Americans had a totally different view of land ownership than Europeans, which worked to their serious disadvantage.
Arrival of the Europeans.
The Europeans gained control over the Native Americans by taking their land and their important riches.
Christopher Columbus took over south America and the Caribbean and claimed that he discovered the "East". He killed millions of native Americans and Spain colonized south America and most up through Mexico and into present day America. killing everything as they went. doosheExplorers from Europe began coming to the Americas.
The Europeans started to use the Native Americans as slaves.