Question

Analyze Indigenous resistance movements from the colonial period to the post-Revolutionary War period. (1 point)ResponsesEuropean colonizers in the Americas, on the whole, treated Indigenous people with kindness. Still, Indigenous people fought them. Examples of this include the Pueblo Rebellion and the fight of the Iroquois Confederacy against the Americans in the Revolutionary War.European colonizers in the Americas, on the whole, treated Indigenous people with kindness. Still, Indigenous people fought them. Examples of this include the Pueblo Rebellion and the fight of the Iroquois Confederacy against the Americans in the Revolutionary War.European colonizers in the Americas, on the whole, treated Indigenous people with cruelty. The Indigenous people were never able to fight back.European colonizers in the Americas, on the whole, treated Indigenous people with cruelty. The Indigenous people were never able to fight back.European colonizers in the Americas, on the w

Answer 1

Best choice: European colonizers in the Americas, on the whole, treated Indigenous people with cruelty. Indigenous people did fight back (e.g., the Pueblo Revolt and the Iroquois fighting in the Revolutionary era).

Brief analysis (1 point):
- Colonization involved violence, land dispossession, forced labor, and disease that severely harmed Indigenous societies.
- Indigenous resistance was widespread and sustained: the Pueblo Revolt (1680) expelled the Spanish from New Mexico for over a decade; Pontiac’s Rebellion (1763) resisted British control after the French & Indian War; during the American Revolution the Iroquois Confederacy was divided but many nations fought (mostly for Britain), suffering heavy losses (e.g., Sullivan Expedition, 1779).
- After the Revolution, Native polities continued to resist U.S. expansion (e.g., the Northwest Indian War, 1785–1795).
Thus, cruelty by colonizers coexisted with persistent and sometimes successful Indigenous resistance.