USA HISTORY

FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The concept of a unified, representative government for the people was recommended to the founders of the United States by:
A
Canassatego, leader of the Iroquois tribe of the Northeast
B
Sitting Bull, chief of the Sioux nation
C
Powhatan, leader of the Leni Lanapi (Delaware) Nation and the father of Pocahontas
D
Tisquantum (Squanto), the English-speaking member of the Wampanoag tribe who assisted the Pilgrims in their settlement in Plymouth, Mass.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Each Iroquois nation ran its internal affairs with a council of elected delegates. They also sent delegates to a grand council. It ran affairs among nations. It was a pure federal system.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hiawatha (/ˌhaɪəˈwɒə/ HY-ə-WOTH-ə, also US: /-ˈwɔːə/-⁠WAW-thə: Haiëñ’wa’tha [hajẽʔwaʔtha]), also known as Ayenwatha or Aiionwatha, was a precolonial Native American leader and co-founder of the Iroquois Confederacy.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Iroquois Constitution declared that the Five Nations would join into one peaceful Iroquois Confederacy. It also created rules for a common council to unite the Nations. The Confederacy lasted for 200 years, until the American Revolution.

Detailed explanation-4: -The member nations of the Iroquois League all lived under matrilineal societies, in which they inherited status and possessions through the mother’s line. Headmen were not elected, but rather clan mothers chose them. Representation was not based on equality or on population.

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