Transportation
A transportation improvement where people collected a toll every ten miles...
turnpike
The mastermind of the Erie Canal.
DeWitt Clinton
The Indian Removal Act was passed in what year?
1830
What year did the Choctaws decide to make a treaty with the U.S.?
1830
This Creek leader sold Creek land and kept the money to himself.
William McIntosh
canal
The Erie Canal stretched from the ________________ to Lake Erie.
Hudson River
Which president passed the Indian Removal Act?
Andrew Jackson
The Choctaws traveled ________ miles to Indian Territory.
500-1,000
What did the Creek people do in response to the selling of their land?
They executed McIntosh
Travelers were having trouble getting across the ___________ and that is why they wanted to build canals.
Appalachian Mountains
The canal took ____ years to build.
eight
The ________ and Fox tribes refused removal.
Sauk
The journey lasted how long?
several weeks and sometimes months
What did the U.S. do after the sale was done and McIntosh was killed?
They nullified it
The first U.S. railroad was built here.
Baltimore, Maryland
The canal was _________ miles long.
363
Native Americans were sent to "Indian Territory" which is in present day ______________.
Oklahoma
What did the treaty between the U.S. and the Choctaws state?
the Choctaws would give up their land in Mississippi for land in the Indian Territory.
Clashes between the Creek and U.S. was called what?
The Second Creek War
This man designed and built a steam engine that could reach up to 18mph.
Peter Cooper
This city became the largest city in the U.S. after the construction of the Erie Canal.
New York City
Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren used this to force tribes to move.
coercion and bribery
What did the U.S. promise on their end of the treaty?
to provide money and help with the move
After the wars, Creek survivors fled where?
Mobile, Alabama and New Orleans, Louisiana