Chapter 171. Reflections on Conquest and Empire in the West, Chapter 17

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Correct. The answer is a. The author’s argument in this section of the chapter is that the United States used imperialist ideology and tactics to conquer the West, forcing Native Americans onto reservations so that white settlers and business interests could take possession of their land.

Incorrect. The answer is a. The author’s argument in this section of the chapter is that the United States used imperialist ideology and tactics to conquer the West, forcing Native Americans onto reservations so that white settlers and business interests could take possession of their land.

Correct. The answer is c. To demonstrate her point that the U.S. government's approach to Native Americans in the West in the late nineteenth century closely resembled European colonial powers’ treatment of native populations they conquered in Africa and Asia, the author discusses Grant’s “peace policy” which was designed to segregate and control the Indians on reservations and to treat them as wards of the state, not as sovereign nations.

Incorrect. The answer is c. To demonstrate her point that the U.S. government's approach to Native Americans in the West in the late nineteenth century closely resembled European colonial powers’ treatment of native populations they conquered in Africa and Asia, the author discusses Grant’s “peace policy” which was designed to segregate and control the Indians on reservations and to treat them as wards of the state, not as sovereign nations.

Correct. The answer is d. The author cites manifest destiny—the belief that the United States had a “God-given” right to aggressively spread the values of white civilization and expand the nation from ocean to ocean—as evidence of the imperialist ideology and rhetoric that undergirded the United States' mission to conquer the West (and especially its Native American inhabitants) in the late nineteenth century.

Incorrect. The answer is d. The author cites manifest destiny—the belief that the United States had a “God-given” right to aggressively spread the values of white civilization and expand the nation from ocean to ocean—as evidence of the imperialist ideology and rhetoric that undergirded the United States' mission to conquer the West (and especially its Native American inhabitants) in the late nineteenth century.

Correct. The answer is b. The author argues that the discovery of gold in the Black Hills led the U.S. government to renege on the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie and to order the Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne onto reservations.

Incorrect. The answer is b. The author argues that the discovery of gold in the Black Hills led the U.S. government to renege on the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie and to order the Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne onto reservations.

Correct. The answer is a. The author argues that the U.S. Army’s use of the scorched earth tactics in the Great Plains accounted in large part for the nation’s defeat of the powerful and fierce Comanche empire in the 1870s.

Incorrect. The answer is a. The author argues that the U.S. Army’s use of the scorched earth tactics in the Great Plains accounted in large part for the nation’s defeat of the powerful and fierce Comanche empire in the 1870s.

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