Vocabulary
Lands given to Native Americans in exchange for their home territory.
reservations
The law passed in 1830 that forced Native Americans to move west.
Answer: What was the Indian Removal Act?
The Cherokee chief who went to the Supreme Court to fight removal.
John Ross
Native Americans were forced to give up their way of life and do this to fit in with white culture.
What does conform mean?
To move from one place to another, sometimes by force.
relocate
The long, forced march of Cherokee people in 1838 where thousands died.
Answer: What was the Trail of Tears?
The president who ignored the Supreme Court and ordered Native Americans to move.
Andrew Jasckson
Native Americans on the Plains depended on this animal for survival.
What are Buffalo?
Large groups of animals living together in one area.
Herd
In 1876, General Custer and his soldiers were killed in this battle.
Answer: What was the Battle of Little Bighorn?
The U.S. Army leader defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who was General Custer?
Children in boarding schools were not allowed to speak their ________.
Native Language
Schools where students not only went to classes but also lived away from their families.
Boarding School
The U.S. government broke its treaty with the Lakota after this was discovered in the Black Hills.
Gold
The tribes forced to move included the Choctaw, Muscogee, Seminole, and this tribe.
Who were the Chickasaw (or Cherokee)?
For Native Americans, westward expansion of white settlers completely changed their ____
way of life