For white American treaty makers, Indian tribes were
a. revered as having the authority to organize and lead scattered Native Americans.
b. considered as an appropriate and efficient way to organize Native American scattered over thousands of miles.
c. a fiction of the white imagination.
d. a better alternative to the scattered bands that they had had in the past.
e. None of these choices are correct.
Question 2
Canada became an important battleground in the War of 1812 because
a. it was the economic hub of the New England economy.
b. Canadians would be willing to help the Americans overthrow the imperial yoke of British rule.
c. British forces were weakest there.
d. the United States could rely on the military and economic support of French Canadians against the British.
e. Canada held important strategic military bases from which the Americans could attack the British.
White-winged Duck at Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Park, North Carolina
Major Indian Cultures, AD 1–1500
John Gast, American Progress.
Three polar bears investigate an American submarine that surfaced in ice-covered Arctic waters.