How did President Grant's approach to interacting with Native Americans differ from his predecessors when he took office in 1869?

A.

He created the Bureau of Indian Affairs to negotiate with Native Americans.

B.

He ordered Native Americans to be moved to the Indian Territory by force.

C.

He attempted to establish peace treaties with Native Americans.

D.

He signed trade agreements to buy land and mineral rights from Native Americans.

The correct answer is C.

He attempted to establish peace treaties with Native Americans.

President Grant's approach to interacting with Native Americans was different from his predecessors when he took office in 1869 through the establishment of peace treaties with Native Americans. President Grant adopted a 'peace policy' to eliminate Indian agents who supervised reservations as they were corrupt and replace them with Christian missionaries whom he felt were morally superior. The policy was based on the belief that Americans had a right to dispossess native people of their land by taking away their land and disposing them to reserves. At the reservations Christian missionaries were expected to teach them how to read & write, to farm, Christianity, and wear Euro-American clothing. The native people who refused to move to reservations were forced off their homelands.