Which of the Following Best Characterizes the Native American Response

question 83

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best characterizes the Native American response to the white assimilation effort in the Midwest in the late eighteenth century?

• A) Many Native Americans repudiated white missionaries and forced Christian converts to participate in Native rituals.
• B) Most Indian women accepted white farming practices because they could produce a greater yield more easily.
• C) Nearly all Native Americans joined religions such as that of Handsome Lake,which blended Christian and Native beliefs and rituals.
• D) Nearly all Native Americans accommodated to these campaigns to avoid future warfare with whites.

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Definitions:

Cost-Benefit Analysis

A comparison of the marginal costs of a project or program with the marginal benefits to decide whether or not to employ resources in that project or program and to what extent.

Future Use

The intention or plan to deploy resources, products, or services at a later date, often considering the long-term benefits or applications.

Conservation

The act of preserving, protecting, or restoring the natural environment, resources, and biodiversity for future generations.

User Cost

The opportunity cost of extracting and selling a non-renewable natural resource today rather than waiting to extract and sell the resource in the future; the present value of the decline in future revenue that will occur because a nonrenewable natural resource is extracted and sold today rather than being extracted and sold in the future.