JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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Question
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Native Americans had very different ideas about land “ownership” than European Americans had. They saw land as something that people used, shared, and lived in harmony with but didn’t “own” in the way we think of owning land today.
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Native Americans believed land belonged to the community, not to individuals. They didn’t own land the ways homesteaders conceived of ownership. This conceptual difference raised conflicts between settlers and Native Americans. The Homestead Act increased the number of people in the western United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -To Europeans, land was something that could be bought, sold, and owned by an individual. Native people did not see land this way. Because of this, Native groups would exchange land, but in their minds had only given permission to use the lands.
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