Influence of Settlers on American Indians

Influence of Settlers on American Indians

Multiple Select

Choose what happened when Europeans and California Indians interacted. Check all that apply.

• They traded gifts but it was rare.

• They got along well.

• Sometimes the explorers and the California Indians fought.

• Two out of three California Indians had died from diseases that visitors had brought.

Multiple Select

Choose the reasons why life in the missions was not easy for California Indians.

• They had to work hard jobs.

• They were free to come and go.

• Indians were forced to work and could not leave.

• Some of them lost their freedom and their beliefs when they converted to become Catholic.

Multiple Select

California Indians were affected when gold was discovered in 1848 because

(Check all that apply)

• California Indians continued to suffer from diseases that the settlers brought

• it brought many people to California who wanted to get rich

• people brought a different idea about land

• it made them rich

Multiple Choice

Which statement best describes the relationship between the California Indians and the Spanish settlers?

• The California Indians converted the Spanish.

• The Spanish helped the California Indians learn to farm.

• The California Indians built many of the Spanish missions.

• The Spanish left the California Indians alone when they settled.

Multiple Choice

What happened to California Indians who did not become Catholic?

• They could leave the missions when they wanted to.

• They were forced to stay and work at the missions.

• They tried to get rich during the Gold Rush.

• They had to leave the missions.

Multiple Choice

Why did the California Indians begin to live on reservations?

• The products they made on the reservations allowed them to make money.

• They were forced there by the California government.

• Reservations had the best land for farming.

• Spanish settlers wanted their land.

Multiple Choice

A written agreement is called a ____________.

• discovery

• treaty

• reservation

• interaction

Multiple Choice

How did the lives of the California Indians change between the late 1600s and the mid-1800s?

• They chose to live on reservations so that they could farm the land, and they signed treaties with settlers to protect the reservations.

• They learned that the settlers were not going to live peacefully with them, and their populations decreased due to new diseases.

• They set up a strong system of trade with the new settlers, and they built new businesses when the Gold Rush began.

• Most converted when the Spanish began building missions, and they were forced to help settlers build large towns and cities.