Author Question: Many historians suggest that the term genocide best describes the California Indian experience in ... (Read 55 times)

soccerdreamer_17 · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

Many historians suggest that the term genocide best describes the California Indian experience in post-Gold Rush California because

a. state power was often used against the Indians and the state reimbursed local authorities for their expenses in fighting Indians.
b. vigilante groups attacked Indians.
c. Indians were placed on reserves where they became targets for violence.
d. all of the above.

Question 2

Which of the following statements best describes the California Indian experience in the first half of the nineteenth century?

a. Their population declined as a result of disease epidemics in the Spanish period, but after California became a state in the Union, the federal government undertook a health care program that resulted in a slight increase in their numbers.
b. The original population of over one million had been reduced to a mere 100,000 by 1860, due to both disease epidemics and American genocide.
c. While the Indian population by 1860 had dropped to little more than thirty thousand, it was still the largest Indian population of any state in the Union.
d. The genocide of California Indians resulted in their near extinction by 1860.