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Discuss how colonial settlement affected Native Americans. Make a Top Five list of the most impactful changes to Native American populations, with #1 causing the most change and #5 causing the least change. You will also explain your reasoning for your #1.

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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 decline
3. Territory - the colonists took their land
4. forced relocation policies - the colonits forced them to stay in some special place, no leaving, starving them
5. coexistence reasoning - the differences between colonist and Native believes
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