Answer:
In 1830, Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act to allow the federal government to fairly, voluntarily and peacefully trade Native-held territory for land in the “Indian colonization zone”. However, the Native Americans were forced to leave the land where they had lived on for generations.
Explanation:
The government’s policies were set on behalf of the white settlers on the western frontier who aspired to grow cotton on the Indians’ lands, which the settlers thought they deserved.
Not only was unfair but also enforced with terrible violence, on what became known as the Trail of Tears: the trek to Indian Territory by foot, in chains, without any food or any kind of help from the government, where thousands of Indians died.
Answer:
D
Explanation:
The entry of the United States was the turning point of the war, because it made the eventual defeat of Germany possible. It had been foreseen in 1916 that if the United States went to war, the Allies' military effort against Germany would be upheld by U.S. supplies and by enormous extensions of credit.
Answer:
Explanation:
The greatest effect of the European intrusion into the Americas was to increase the Indian and mestizo population through intermarriage with the whites. The primary cause of the massive population decline among native Americans after the European arrival was not warfare but disease.
