Which One of the Following Statements Is Accurate Regarding Native

question 46

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following statements is accurate regarding Native Americans in the United States?

• A) Native Americans earned the right to vote in the United States decades before women.
• B) Native Americans earned the right to vote in the United States decades before African-American men.
• C) Native Americans had no political rights throughout much of the nineteenth century.
• D) Native American tribes were recognized as sovereign foreign nations as early as 1872.

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Definitions:

Evolutionary Innovation

The development of new structures, behaviors, or physiological processes in a species that enhances survival, reproduction, or adaptation to environmental changes.

Uniformitarianism

The principle suggesting that Earth's geologic processes acted in the same manner and with essentially the same intensity in the past as they do in the present, and that this consistency accounts for all geological changes.

Allopatric Speciation

Speciation pattern in which a physical barrier arises and separates populations, ending gene flow between them.

Geographic Isolation

A form of reproductive isolation in which two populations are separated by physical barriers, leading to the development of distinct species.