Answer:
A. The Native Americans died from common European diseases.
Explanation:
In the first hundred years of American colonization, there were a couple of times when the English were just about driven back to the ocean. Probably the best known example is the original Virginia colony, founded at Jamestown in 1607, by 1611 had expanded up the James River to Henricus (five miles south of present day Richmond, in between I-295 and I-95 on the river).
Yet, in 1622, the Powhatan made one massive attack, killing off half the colony in total (settlements and the plantations in between), wiping out Henricus, and driving the remainder of the colonists back within the walls of the Jamestown fort.
15 years of colonization, and the English are suddenly right back where they were on Day One.
The Virginia Colony didn’t finally get to the point of parity with the natives until the end of the third Powhatan War (the destruction of Henricus was the start of the second) in 1644, by which point the Powhatan were finally beaten down to the point where the English felt confident that they were staying.
The colonists in New England and New Sweden (Delaware and southern New Jersey) didn’t have it any easier.
Claiming the Europeans easily defeated the Natives is one hell of an insult to the Natives.
