Relations with Native Americans Quick Check

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

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

Answer 1

The correct response that analyzes colonizer challenges to tribal sovereignty 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 response accurately reflects the impact of colonization on Indigenous nations, highlighting the negative consequences such as land theft and the introduction of harmful diseases and foreign species. The other responses either misrepresent the nature of the relationship between colonizers and Indigenous peoples or imply a level of respect and cooperation that was largely absent in historical contexts.