What happened to the group of Spanish explorers searching for land under the leadership of Tristan de Luna?
A hurricane sank many of their ships causing them to lose most of their supplies. Some people died. The settlers gave up and returned to Spain.
100
A _________________ was a place where people met to trade goods.
trading post
100
Native American leader ______________, wanted to stop American settlement. He was a leader of a Shawnee group who convinced many other Native American groups to form an alliance against the settlers.
Tecumseh
100
The Upper Creek, or Red Sticks, were led by __________________________.
William Weatherford
100
Areas of land that sometimes or always are soaked with water
wetlands
200
Describe one effect of the Spanish explorers coming in contact with Native Americans.
Without knowing it, some explorers carried germs that caused diseases. Many Native Americans died because they were not able to fight off the germs.
200
________________________ was a Creek leader who refused to give up Creek land to the American settlers.
Alexander McGillivray
200
The Upper Creek were also known as ________________ because of their brightly colored war clubs.
Red Sticks
200
Which Native American group occupied the largest amount of land in Alabama during the 1500s?
The Creek
200
Talladega's zip code is ___________________.
35160
300
_______________ and his men searched for treasures including gold and demanded supplies from the Native Americans.
Hernando de Soto
300
A ______________ is a country or area that is ruled by another country.
colony
300
An _________________ is an agreement made between people, groups, or countries.
alliance
300
The Lower Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Cherokee were led by American general ______________________.
Andrew Jackson
300
Half of the globe
hemisphere
400
___________________ was the Choctaw chief that refused to give supplies to the Spanish armed force.
Tuskaloosa
400
A __________________ is a written agreement.
treaty
400
Many of the Upper Creek agreed with Tecumseh and wanted to keep settlers off their land. The Lower Creek wanted to make peace. The battle that resulted is known as the _____________________.
Creek War
400
At the end of the Creek War, the Upper Creek signed a treaty giving the U.S. __________________________.
23 million acres of land
400
Alabama is located in the __________________ region.
Southeast
500
The war fought between the British and the French in 1754 over the fur trade is known as the ___________________________.
French and Indian War (Britain won the war)
500
A _____________ is money a government collects from its people.
tax
500
__________ are emergency armies made up of citizens.
Militias
500
The Red Sticks lost the final battle against Jackson and the Lower Creek in a battle known as _________________________________.
The Battle of Horseshoe Bend
500
The four main Native American groups in the mid-1500s were the ______________________________________________.