Vocabulary
What does it mean to consider a possibility without knowing all the facts?
What is speculate?
According to the Northwest Ordinance, how many residents did a territory need to seek statehood?
What is 60,000?
The American President most associated with the forced removal of the Southeastern Indians was
What is Andrew Jackson?
The removal of most Native American tribes to areas west of the Mississippi River was hampered by these three hardships
What is disease, starvation, poor weather conditions?
In 1830, Congress passed the
What is the Indian Removal Act?
to give up, surrender, or relinquish?
What is forfeit?
The capital of the Cherokee nation, which was selected in 1840, is located in what Oklahoma town?
What is Tahlequah?
Who was an important leader of the Chickasaw nation in the late 19th century? (Hint: His name is also the name of the capital of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma)
What is Tishomingo?
What were the police forces of the Choctaw and the Chickasaw?
What is Light Horsemen?
Identify the Five Civilized Tribes.
What is the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek (Muskogee), Seminole?
What does it mean to trouble or torment with continuous attacks?
What is Harassment?
Which three military forts were a functioning fort inside Indian Territory
What is Fort Towson, Fort Coffee, Fort Gibson?
Which president is famously quoted as saying, "John Marshall's made his decision; now let him enforce it."
What is Andrew Jackson?
The term "Trail of Tears" is thought to have originated from which tribe?
What is Cherokee?
What invention changed the future of the southern United States regarding the issue of slavery?
What is the cotton gin?
A sum of money paid annually or at some other regular interval?
What is Annuity?
What two tribes were allotted shared land in the southern half of Indian Territory (Oklahoma)?
What is Choctaw and Chickasaw?
John Ross was fluent in what two languages?
What is English and Cherokee?
Which of the Five Civilized Tribes managed their own removal process?
What is Chickasaw?
the line that divided the state of Oklahoma and separated the pro slavery states from the free states
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
What is a difference of opinion; disagreement?
What is Dissent?
What two tribes were allotted territory in central Indian territory that includes modern day Oklahoma City?
What is Creek and Seminole?
Which of the following was the principal chief of the Cherokee during the removal process?
What is John Ross?
What were the names of the two groups of the Cherokee tribe that split on the idea of anti-removal or removal?
What is Modernist and Traditionalist
How many soldiers did the federal government send to evict the remaining Cherokees?
What is 7,000?