Which statement is true of relations between Native Americans and the colonies or United States between 1607 and 1900? A) Native Americans avoided contact and conflict with non-Indians in North America as much as possible. B) Native Americans suffered hardships when Europeans first arrived in North America, but relations improved during the 1800s. C) The desire for land led colonists, and then the United States government and people, to push Indians off their land and destroy their way of life. D) Native Americans opposed European colonization at first, but in the 1800s chose to assimilate into white American culture.
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C) The desire for land led colonists, and then the United States government and people, to push Indians off their land and destroy their way of life.
- Over the course of this time period, European colonists and later American settlers continually expanded into Native American territories. This expansion was often conducted through forced removal, broken treaties, and warfare, which significantly disrupted Native American societies and cultures. From the early colonial period up through the 19th century, land was a principal source of conflict. As settlers moved westward, Native American groups were frequently pushed off their ancestral homelands and experienced destruction of their traditional ways of life.