After the Iroquois Confederacy Repudiated the 1784 Treaty of Fort

question 48

Multiple Choice

After the Iroquois confederacy repudiated the 1784 Treaty of Fort Stanwix,

• A) Congress formally recognized the Iroquois Confederacy as sovereign in the Northwest Territory.
• B) Congress allowed the Creeks to retain their ancestral lands if they would ally with the United States against the Iroquois Confederacy.
• C) New York State began to purchase large tracts of land from individual Iroquois nations, thus reducing the Confederacy by 1790 to a few scattered reservations.
• D) Congress declared war on the Confederacy and confiscated all its lands.

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