USA HISTORY

MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855

THE OREGON TRAIL WESTWARD MIGRATION TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Were the Natives nice to the pioneers?
A
Yes
B
No
C
Sometimes
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -However, Indians benefited the pioneers as well. Pioneers often traded with Indians and in many cases the cattle and horses, and food purchased from Indians saved lives of pioneers. Indians also helped the pioneers once they arrived in the Great Basin.

Detailed explanation-2: -The French enjoyed much better relations with Native Americans than other European groups when they first came to American shores.

Detailed explanation-3: -Thomas Jefferson believed Native American peoples to be a noble race who were “in body and mind equal to the whiteman” and were endowed with an innate moral sense and a marked capacity for reason. Nevertheless, he believed that Native Americans were culturally and technologically inferior.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Comanches, known as the “Lords of the Plains", were regarded as perhaps the most dangerous Indians Tribes in the frontier era.

Detailed explanation-5: -During the American Revolution, the majority of American Indian Nations allied themselves with the British in order to preserve their culture and stop encroachment upon their lands.

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