3. why did some groups living in america give women a significant amount of
power?

Women were given immense power because they belong to the matrilineal culture.

In this culture, the mother’s line or descent is given much importance. They have the power to inherit the property of mother to a daughter.

In matrilineal society, if a person’s mother is a Mexican, then the daughter can proclaim herself to be half Mexican. In matrilineal societies there is less scope for spousal violence. They cannot ill-treat a women and she enjoys high privileges from her kin group.

the answer to number 5 is fort sumter

worcester v. georgia, legal case in which the u.s. supreme court on march 3, 1832, held (5–1) that the states did not have the right to impose regulations on native american land. andrew jackson refused to enforce the ruling, the decision form the basis for most subsequent indian law in the united states.