Columbus called the native people in the "New World" Indians because
a. that was what they called themselves.
b. he believed that he had skirted the rim of the "Indies."
c. it was a form of the Spanish word for heathen.
d. the Vikings had first called them by that name.
e. the Spanish often used this generic word, which meant "outsider" or "non-Spanish."
b
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What will be an ideal response?
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A. Stephen F. Austin B. James Fannin C. Benjamin R. Milam D. Louis Rose
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a. the trial of John Peter Zenger in New York. b. the Paxton Boys in Philadelphia. c. the Regulator movement in North Carolina. d. the Great Awakening in New England. e. opposition to slavery.
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