Early European settlers rarely encountered native peoples, so there were few conflicts until the settlers began moving west.While there were millions of native peoples in North America when Europeans arrived, they had not established permanent communities or any substantive agricultural practices.Because European agricultural systems were superior, settlers to the US were able to grow food where native communities could not.The idea that settlers came to "free land" or open land in North America is a myth perpetuated in the 1800s. Although populations had decreased by the time settlers arrived, there were still millions of native peoples living on the land that is now the US.

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