Describe the key features of trans-Mississippi Native Americans and the impact that the movement of whites into the area had on them
What will be an ideal response?
Features: 300,000 Indians in over 200 tribes; both nomadic and sedentary; diverse in cultures and social organization; Plains Indians horse culture; Pueblo Indians agriculture; Great Basin and California Indians meager existence; Northwestern Indians elaborate social system based on abundance.
Impact: lost land; conflict; reduced numbers.
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All of the following are consistent with President Jackson?s policy toward the Indians EXCEPT
A) the ?Trail of Tears.? B) compliance with 18th-century treaties. C) an official policy of Indian removal to west of the Mississippi River. D) the belief that Indians were incapable of civilization. E) a priority granted to private ownership of farm land for the Americans.
The first railroad to begin operating in the United States was the ________ Railroad
A) Boston and Worcester B) Charleston-Hamburg C) Baltimore and Ohio D) New York and Erie
In an effort to help support the increased cost of colonial administration, Parliament passed the ________ Act in 1764, placing tariffs on coffee, wines, and other major imports
A) Tea B) Sugar C) Grenville D) Declaratory
Identify an accurate statement about Lower Guinea
A) Religiously, most Africans in Lower Guinea did not embrace Islam. B) Lower Guinea was one of the African regions in which slavery and slave trade were absent. C) The people living in Lower Guinea were dependent on hunting and gathering rather than agriculture. D) Family descent in Lower Guinea was typically patrilineal. E) Lower Guinea did not have hierarchical social structures.