Native American Resistance
What was Indian Removal
This U.S president pushed Native Americans westward and ignored treaties to expand the Cotton Kingdom.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
Many Native Americans lost this important resource after being moved onto reservations, making survival difficult.
What were Buffalo/Bison?
This Cherokee leader tried to stop the removal of his people from their land.
Who was John Ross
This belief claimed that Americans were destined to spread across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This Native American leader helped lead the Lakota resistance against U.S. forces at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who is Sitting Bull?
This law ended the recognition of Native tribes as independent nations able to make treaties with the U.S government.
What was the Indian Appropriation Act of 1871?
The U.S government tried to force Native Americans to adopt this dominant American culture and way of life.
What is Assimilation?
This Shawnee chief wanted Native American tribes to unite against westward expansion.
Who was John Tecumseh
Thousands of Native Americans were forced to move west in this deadly journey during Andrew Jackson's presidency.
What was the Trail of Tears?
Native Americans resisted by continuing to practice this even when boarding schools tried to erase it.
What is their culture/traditions?
Native Americans were forced onto these lands after being removed from their homes through broken agreements and violence.
What are reservations?
Many Native American children were sent to these institutions where they were forbidden from speaking their languages or practicing traditions.
What were boarding schools?
This Native American leader and holy man helped lead the Lakota Sioux during conflicts with the U.S. Army.
Who was Sitting Bull
This discovery in 1848 brought massive numbers of settlers westward to California.
These government schools forced Native American children to stop speaking their own languages.
What were boarding schools?
Takaki Explains that railroads and westward expansion led the government to repeatedly break agreements with this group of people.
Who are Native Americans/Indigenous people?
Takaki describes how reservation life often created poverty and dependence because Native Americans were denied this important resource for farming and survival.
What was fertile/good land?
This Apache leader resisted American control in the Southwest for many years.
Who was Geronimo
Takaki explains that this transportation project helped connect the nation and speed up settlement in the West.
What was the transcontinental railroad?
Native Americans resisted the destruction of this animal that was important to Plains tribes for food and survival.
What were buffalo/bison?
According to Takaki, the U.S government justified breaking treaties with Native Americans in the name of this idea of expansion and "Civilization."
What was Manifest Destiny/Westward expansion/progress?
This phrase summarizes the government policy of "Americanizing" Native Americans by removing their traditions and cultural identity.
What is "Kill the Indian, save the man"?
This Nez Perce leader said "I will fight no more forever" after trying to escape with his people.
Who was Chief Joseph
According to Takaki, westward expansion was promoted as progress, but it also led to the displacement and destruction of these communities.
What are Native American tribes/nations?