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AP U.S. History 2.3 Period 7: 1890-1945. The language used in the excerpt most strongly supports which of the following ideas?
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[ musical flourish ]
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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by translators,
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people who will get to their foreign language
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homework in a little while.
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Okay... Holy Bible, Indian language.
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And... We're lookin'.
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All right, what does the image suggest about
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the impact of European contact on
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Native American communities?
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And here are your potential answers.
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[ mumbles ]
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[ mumbling continues ]
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[ mumbling continues ]
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Hmm. All right. Well, what can we take
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from this image, other than the fact that
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the font is pretty rad?
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All right. Well, it's a title page from a bible translated into
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the Indian language.
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Nevermind that Native Americans had
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hundreds of different languages. We know that
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someone went to the trouble of translating the Bible into...
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one of them.
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All right, let's check out our answers and see what
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best describes the impact of such a book,
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other than a pretty cramped hand for the translator.
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All right, does this image
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suggest that European contact with Native American
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communities A - caused death
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through disease in Native American society?
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Well, it's true that European contact
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with Native Americans led to death through both disease
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and warfare between tribes,
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but that doesn't have very much to do with our image.
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So it's not A or B.
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Does this image imply that Native American contact with European settlers
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C - forced Native Americans to learn new languages?
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Well, certainly the two groups had trouble communicating,
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but this image suggests that Europeans went
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to great lengths to learn Native American languages
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in order to forcibly spread
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their own religion. That knocks out C, as well.
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Which means that this image suggests
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that European contact with Native American communities
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D - led to distinct changes
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in Native American culture.
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And that, it did.
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As Christianity spread throughout the New World,
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Native American culture was forced
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to react and adapt to the new religion
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sweeping the countryside.
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So D is the correct answer. As in,
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"Do unto others as you would have them
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do unto you." Unless it's inconvenient.
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Then just go with whatever. Yeah.
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