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Analyze colonizer challenges to tribal sovereignty in the early United States.(1 point)

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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 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. 

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

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

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The most accurate response regarding the challenges to tribal sovereignty by colonizers in the early United States is:

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

This statement reflects the historical reality that colonizers often disregarded Indigenous rights to their lands, forcibly taking territory through treaties that were frequently broken or imposed under coercion. The introduction of diseases, which Indigenous populations had no immunity to, drastically reduced their numbers and disrupted their societies. Additionally, the introduction of non-native plants and animals changed the ecosystems in ways that often harmed Indigenous agricultural practices and lifestyles.

The other responses either misrepresent the nature of interactions, suggesting that colonizers respected tribal sovereignty or collaborated fairly, or inaccurately claim that colonizers’ activities enhanced tribal sovereignty, which is historically unfounded.