How did Indian life change in eighteenth-century American colonies prior to the Revolution?
What will be an ideal response?
The growing number of settlers in search of land endangered the surviving Indian populations, who had changed considerably since their first contact with Europeans. While Indians rarely lived among whites, they had become accustomed to trading with them and to using European goods such as firearms, liquor, kettles, clothes, and hatchets. Warriors of new tribes that emerged out of the remnants of older groups that had been ravaged by war and disease now fought as the allies of European powers. But for new European settlers, the increasing importance of Indians as trading partners and military allies was overshadowed by the obstacle they posed to colonists' landownership. Even in Pennsylvania, a growing number of settlers encroached on Indian lands and spoiled colonial-Indian relations with suspicion, hostility, and treachery.
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