24. in 3–5 sentences, explain the impacts that european contact and settlement had on the native americans.

European contact and settlement in America had impacts, mostly negative, among these are a large number of diseases brought by Europeans because of many natives dying because they had no immunity to these diseases.  

Other effects were the occupation of the most productive lands and the expulsion of native tribes from their territory, which caused wars between natives and Europeans.

the committees of correspondence were the american colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the revolutionary war. in 1764, boston formed the earliest committee of correspondence to encourage opposition to britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of american paper money. the following year, new york formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the stamp act. in 1773, the virginia house of burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. the exchanges that followed built solidarity during the turbulent times and bring about the formation of the first continental congress in 1774.