The Potawatomie lived in southern Michigan in villages usually built along streams. Their houses were made of poles covered with bark. They grew corn, beans, and squash. They also hunted deer, elk, and beaver. Sap from maple trees was used to make syrup, women made pottery, and men made canoes out of birch bark. John Allen and Elisha Rumsey founded the city of Ann Arbor, Michigan in January 1824. They bought land from the federal government to resell to settlers and make money. The area had a source of water and plenty of trees needed to run a sawmill. The men bought 640 acres of land and told settlers about their new town. Today, more than 100,000 people live in Ann Arbor. The two paragraphs above describe two settlements in Michigan in the early 1800s. Which of the following statements is true? A. People could make money by creating a new town and selling land to settlers. B. Settlers had to hunt and fish and borrow from the Native Americans to survive.
C. Settlers wanted to live in Indian villages instead of building a new town.
D. Native Americans tried to attract new settlers by building new towns.