Which Is True of the Approach Taken by English Colonies

question 89

Multiple Choice

Which is true of the approach taken by English colonies to Native American land in the seventeenth century?

• A) The English usually acquired land from the Native Americans by forcing treaties on them.
• B) The first English colonists sought the permission of local Indian chiefs before establishing settlements.
• C) English leaders encouraged settlers to establish farms on Native American land in order to provoke warfare, which inevitably resulted in treaties favoring the English.
• D) The English did not acknowledge that the Native Americans had any rights to their ancestral lands.
• E) Puritan preachers made popular the argument that only Indians who converted to Christianity could claim ownership to any land.

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