Why was it so difficult for Europeans during the early 19th ...

[londonang]

Why was it so difficult for Europeans during the early 19th century to accept the fact that Native Americans had built the mounds and earthworks in the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys?
 
  a. Believing that a superior race had built the mounds fit nicely into the social and political context of the times, helping to justify colonialism.
  b. Archaeological and historical evidence to suggest that Native Americans had built the mounds was completely lacking.
  c. It was a conscious effort on the part of racist archaeologists to steal Native American land; everyone really knew that the Native Americans had built the mounds.
  d. Westward expansion had not yet begun; European colonists were therefore unfamiliar with how similar the mounds really were to the mounds actively being constructed by living Native Americans.
  e. No one really accepted the explanation, but it was part of the history books.

Question 2

Squier and Davis contributed to investigations of the Moundbuilders by:
 
  a. Intensively and systematically surveying and recording roughly 200 mound sites.
  b. Being among the first to argue that the Native Americans had indeed built the mounds.
  c. Remaining objective, avoiding speculations, and ultimately arriving at the truth.
  d. Donating the funding to carry out mound exploration
  e. Testing the hypothesis that the Moundbuilders were not the ancestors of living Indians

[Cheesycrackers]

Answer to Question 1

a

Answer to Question 2

a