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6. What was one of the reasons the whites used to prove that the Indians were inferior?

  • They were nomads
  • They wore feather headdresses
  • They had not discovered writing or the wheel
  • They were Christians

7. How did the travelling whites disrupt the Indian's way of life?

  • They disurbed the buffalo herds
  • They destroyed the Indian's camps
  • They stole the Indian's horses
  • They took all the buffalo for themselves

8. Who first wrote about the Manifest Destiny, in 1845?

  • John Lliff
  • Joseph Smith
  • John O'Sullivan
  • Joseph McCoy

9. How did Indaians get metal goods such as cooking pots?

  • They killed the mountain men
  • They sold skins to the mountain men
  • They traded horses with the mountain men
  • They made them

10. In what year did the first mountain men become guides for the wagon trains?

  • 1838
  • 1840
  • 1848
  • 1845