Vocabulary
What is an Anglo-American?
What does it mean that all native nations were considered Sovereign?
Native nations were free to make their own policies and define their own laws without the encroachment of any other government.
What two groups fought during King Philips war?
Wampanoag tribe and Massachusetts settlers.
Name all three presidents mentioned in the Removal process.
Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, and John C. Calhoun
True or false: Indian Territory was free and clear of any inhabitants when the removal process took place.
False
What does the term Agrarian mean?
Agricultural lifestyles.
Under the Doctrine of Discovery who owned the land in the new world?
The government of the explorer who made the discovery.
What was the main result of King Philip's war?
It had cemented the Euro-American belief that native Americans were bloodthirsty savages.
What president first mentioned/established the idea of Native American removal West of the Mississippi?
After 1803 and the Louisiana Purchase Jefferson saw new possibilities for solving the Indian problem. He proposed to exchange land in the west for land in the east and move Indian tribes to new ground’s far away from white encroachment
What tribe was impacted by the Treaty of Rabbit Creek?
The Choctaws.
What native American group took part in Guerrilla Warfare tactics during Native American Removal?
The Seminole.
Name one of the two effects the Doctrine of Discovery had on Indian US Government relations.
It prevented the United States from trying to conquer Indians
Indian tribes were recognized as sovereign nations
Why did some English settlers start using Rights of conquest against Native Americans after the Revolutionary War?
Some Native American tribes allied with the British during the war.
How many removals did the Cherokee nation take part in? How many Native Americans were removed total?
3 removals and 20,000 Cherokee were removed in total.
What tribe was impacted by the treaty of Pontotoc?
Chickasaw
What were some of the characteristics that the 5 tribes adopted to become more civilized? Name at least 2.
1. Adopted western farming practices.
2. Adopted slavery.
3. Adopted Western education.
4. Adopted English as a written language.
True or false: All Americans supported Native American Removal.
False
Other than Removal, what was the main way/preferred method of integrating Native Americans into Euro-American culture?
acculturation and assimilation
Numerically speaking, what native nation was impacted most by removal?
Cherokee.
What tribe was impacted by the treaty of Doaksville?
Choctaw
What was the problem with the Civilian Contractors during the first removal process of the Cherokee?
The price to pay them was too high.
Name and describe the four specific policies outlined in the Doctrine of Discovery.
Protect Native Americans and their rights.
Provide services in exchange for tribal lands.
Native Americans were allowed to occupy and use tribal lands.
No one could alter Native lands other than the Us Government.
Explain the difference in understanding Native Americans and English Immigrants had about land ownership.
When colonist bought tribal lands, they meant to buy it on a permanent basis. When Indians sold land, they were only selling the rights to use it for a limited period of time, as in renting
Referencing the discussion that we read as a class about Native American Removal, Name the three strategies the Cherokee used to fight against Native American removal.
Cherokee's used the legal system
Cherokee's attempted to assimilate and adopt American culture.
Protesting and lobbying the government
What eventually caused the Chickasaw to cede all of their lands north of the Tennessee River?
They owed a substantial debt to the US government.