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Relations with Native Americans Quick Check
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Question
Analyze colonizer challenges to tribal sovereignty in the early United States.(1 point)
Responses

Colonizers challenged tribal sovereignty by stealing land and introducing diseases, plants, and animals that devastated Indigenous land and peoples.
Colonizers challenged tribal sovereignty by stealing land and introducing diseases, plants, and animals that devastated Indigenous land and peoples.

Colonizers challenged tribal sovereignty by trading with Indigenous groups and sharing farming techniques with them.
Colonizers challenged tribal sovereignty by trading with Indigenous groups and sharing farming techniques with them.

Colonizers challenged tribal sovereignty by allowing Indigenous peoples to negotiate with the American government fairly and allowing them to keep living on their land.
Colonizers challenged tribal sovereignty by allowing Indigenous peoples to negotiate with the American government fairly and allowing them to keep living on their land.

American colonizers did not challenge tribal sovereignty. They worked together with Indigenous people and respected their rights.

Answer 1

The first response is the most accurate in analyzing the challenges to tribal sovereignty posed by colonizers in the early United States.

Response: Colonizers challenged tribal sovereignty by stealing land and introducing diseases, plants, and animals that devastated Indigenous land and peoples.

This option accurately reflects the historical reality of colonization, where European settlers encroached on Native lands, often through force, treaties that were not honored, and introduced diseases that severely impacted Indigenous populations. The other responses downplay or misrepresent the nature of colonizer-Indigenous relations during this period.