How Did Most of the Large Number of Native Americans

question 22

Multiple Choice

How did most of the large number of Native Americans residing in what is now California subsist?

• A) through hunting and gathering
• B) by fishing for salmon
• C) as agriculturalists who irrigated their small fields
• D) as agriculturalists who used the lower classes to cultivate large expanses of land

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Definitions:

American General

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Abraham Lincoln

The 16th President of the United States, who led the country during the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

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