Questions on "From Resistance to Reservation": PART A: Which TWO of the following best identify the central idea of this text?
A. The U. S. government was justified to treat the Indians harshly because they lost the American Indian Wars.
B. The U. S. government put the needs of American settlers and homesteaders over the treaty-protected rights
of American Indians to their land.
C. The U. S. government did the most good possible by taking land from a few Indians to give to many settlers,
minimizing violence for both sides.
D. The Indians who did not resist American advancement and retreated to reservations were treated better than
those who fought and eventually surrendered to the U. S. government.
E. The Seventh Cavalry got revenge for the Battle of the Little Bighorn at the Massacre of Wounded Knee.
F. Life was difficult for Indians on reservations because they could not practice their ancestral ways of living nor
adapt to new ways without proper resources and guidance.