Question

Analyze Indigenous resistance movements from the colonial period to the post-Revolutionary War period. (1 point)

Options:

European colonizers in the Americas, on the whole, treated Indigenous people with cruelty. These practices led Indigenous people to fight back. 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. Mainly, Indigenous people did not fight back. The Pueblo Rebellion was the exception.  

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 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.

Answer 1

Option 1 is correct.

European colonizers frequently used violence, dispossession, forced labor, and cultural suppression, and Indigenous peoples regularly resisted. Notable examples include the Pueblo Revolt (1680) against Spanish rule and multiple Iroquois nations fighting on the British side against American revolutionaries during the Revolutionary War; other resistance episodes include Powhatan conflicts, the Pequot War, King Philip’s War, and Pontiac’s Rebellion.