Answer: b)Matrilineal
Explanation:
Before the Europeans came and had the Native Americans adopt their principles of Patrilineal descent, Native Americans were predominantly Matrilineal in ancestry.
This means that the Natives claimed descent from their mother's clan and women were important enough to be involved in making decisions that concerned the tribe. Some tribes even conferred on women elders, the right to depose a leader who they felt was inefficient.
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1. On Apr. 11, 1803, the French foreign minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand opened negotiations by asking the surprised Livingston what the United States would give for all of Louisiana. Bargaining began in earnest the next day, on Monroe's arrival in Paris.
2. In the Louisiana Purchase, there were three important people that had a big impact on the Purchase. There names were Napoleon Bonoparte, Thomas Jefferson, and Robert R Livingston.
3. American diplomats Robert Livingston and James Monroe purchased the Louisiana Territory from the French for $15 million dollars, or four cents an acre, in 1803
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The answer to your question would be, "Each measure was voted on individually". This allowed congressmen to oppose the measures they disagreed with, but still keep the measures they agreed upon.