Activity Ingles 5/20

_Activity 13/20. Skimming, USA history.

Revisión del intento 1

Comenzado el

Sunday, 29 de June de 2014, 00:11

Completado el

Sunday, 29 de June de 2014, 00:19

Tiempo empleado

8 minutos 23 segundos

Puntos

3/3

Calificación

10 de un máximo de 10 (100%)

Question 1

Puntos: 1

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Expansion of the Nation

The West

Indian Wars. Although their cultures varied from nomadic to village-dwelling, The Native Americans on the Plains maintained a largely subsistence economy in which the buffalo was central. When whites began setting the Plains, they killed millions of buffalo so that by the 1880s only a few hundred were left. The destruction disrupted life on the Plains, increasing conflict among the Native Americans. From the Sand Creek Massacre in 1862 to the so-called Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890, sporadic fighting took place between the United States Army and the Plains Indians.

Adapted from: Marlowe, L. (2006). History of the United States II. United States of America: REA, p. 17.

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a. Consequences of the extinction of the buffalo. Correcto

b. Wars of native Americans against white men.

c. Lifestyles in the Plains.

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Correcto

Puntos para este envío: 1/1.

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Question 2

Puntos: 1

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Expansion of the Nation

Reservations and Reform. Meanwhile in the 1860s and 1870s the government sought to push the Native Americans onto reservations, specific territories that supposedly were protected from white settlement and where the indigenous peoples could be “civilized”. Reformers in the East, such as the Indian Rights Association, protested

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