Class of Cultures
What are settlers?
A group of people who traveled from one land to live in another new land.
What is a conflict?
A fight or disagreement between people.
What is an Expedition?
A journey for a specific purpose.
What are goods?
Items that were brought over and used for trade with the Indians.
What did President Andrew Jackson do involving the Native Americans?
He signed the Indian Removal Act.
The first group of people to live in, what is now, the United States.
What is a compromise?
An agreement between people that resolves a conflict, or prevents one.
Who are Indians?
A name given to the Native Americans by the early settlers.
What is smallpox?
A disease brought over with the settlers that impacted the Indians.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
A law that forced Native Americans from their homes to new land.
Who are the Potawatomi?
A group of Native Americans that lived in North America when the settlers arrived.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
An explorer from Spain who founded the Caribbean Sea and landed on America.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
An Italian explorer that America was named after.
What are Spanish Missions?
Some of the first settlements in North America.
What helped with the growth of European settlements and communities?
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The trade of furs, sugar, and tobacco with the Native Americans.
What is the Treaty of Potawatomi?
A law that was passed that forced the Native Americans to move to new lands.
What did the arrival of the settlers bring?
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Cooperation and Conflict.
What was Columbus hoping to find?
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An easier trade route to Asia.
What are examples of goods that were traded?
Corn, potatoes, guns, tools, cloth, metal work.
What was a major conflict as more communities expanded?
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The European colonies began enslaving Native Americans and African people and claimed more land from the Native Americans.
What is a reservation?
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The name of land that the settlers forced the Indians to live on.
Did the arrival of the settlers bring more cooperation or conflict?
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Conflict.
Why did the settlers and Native Americans fight so much?
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They both wanted the land that the Native Americans had.
What sometimes happened to the Native Americans when settlers built Spanish mission?
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They sometimes forced them to change religion and work at the missions.
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The United States promised that the new territory would be the Native Americans, but they took the land from them in 1907.