How have historians perceived the significance of the Mayflower Compact of 1620?
A) the fundamental beginning of government by the consent of the people
B) an agreement among a diverse group of people trying to cooperate with each other through an anticipated difficult winter in a strange land
C) an early agreement of religious tolerance and acceptance in the North American colonies
D) a complex and contradictory political document to help govern the Plymouth colony
Answer: B
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The Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867:
A) created the first Indian reservation in the west. B) allowed eastern tribes to move back if they chose to be individual citizens. C) divided Indian Territory into individual allotments. D) crowded many Indian tribes onto reservations in Indian Territory.
How did the arrival of Europeans affect relations among Native Americans in and around the Hudson River Valley?
What will be an ideal response?
What was the main purpose of the continental “Association”?
A) to foster improved relations between the various colonies B) to seek a conservative, peaceful resolution of the political crises of the mid–1770s C) to raise money to feed starving Indians displaced by western settlements D) to halt trade with Britain until the Intolerable Acts were repealed E) to raise and equip armies to fight for the American cause
As people grow up, they learn symbols but not the cultural meaning of those symbols
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