Answer:
After many native Americans died to smallpox, Europeans colonized the native Americans land and plagued their population by killing and hurting Native Americans. Native Americans had to suffer from the disease, loss of land, living in poverty , and so much more!
Many of the Native people were killed off due to disease and warfare. Some of them during this time were enslaved and doing labor work. After many of them started dying, the Europeans now needed people for labor work.
This would cause a lot of Europeans and settlers to turn to Africans for labor work. This would eventually lead to the triangular trade, which had three legs in it. The first leg was for manufactured goods, like weapons. The second leg was the transport of Africans. Lastly, the third leg was the transport of raw goods and materials.
The second leg, known as the Middle Passage, was the transport of Africans to the Americas. They were on very cramped boats, many of them catching diseases because of the horrid conditions. White men on the boat would sometimes beat or starve them, they would then throw them overboard if they died. When they reached the Americas, they would then be sold into slavery. The Europeans wanted people to do their labor work, so when the Native people died they turned to Africans to fill their shoes.
