Native American chief that resisted the English at Jamestown and was the leader of a more than 9,000 people and 100 villages in the Virginia area.
Who is Powhatan?
100
Most conflicts between Native Americans and settlers were over these two things.
What are land and resources?
100
Something from the Earth, such as wood or metal, that is changed so that people can use it
What is a raw material?
100
Founded in 1620, most the people in this settlement were escaping religious persecution in England, but some came to America for financial reasons
What is Plymouth?
100
Lasting more than 60 years, and aided by Dutch and French weapons, the Iroquois and Huron fought over hunting grounds near the Great Lakes.
What is the Beaver War?
200
The fourth Chief Justice of the U.S Supreme Court that ruled with the Cherokee and believed they had the right to keep their land.
Who is Chief Justice John Marshall?
200
In 1890, hundreds of Lakota are massacred in South Dakota.
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre?
200
A written political agreement between two or more groups
What is a treaty?
200
In 1607, John Smith and a group of English settlers made their way into Chesapeake Bay and started this settlement
What is Jamestown?
200
King George III signed this document making it illegal to cross the Appalachian Mountains and settle, but thousands of colonists ignored his order and settled anyway.
What is The Proclamation of 1763?
300
Although he was only one-eighth Cherokee, he became chief and resisted the removal of his people from Georgia.
Who is John Ross?
300
Chief Pushmataha agreed to give up Choctaw lands for new lands in Mississippi. The U.S government was supposed to build schools to help the Choctaw assimilate.
What is the Treaty of Doak's Stand?
300
A law
What is an act?
300
If not for the assistance of this man, the Pilgrims may never have made it through the first winter in Massachusetts
Who is Squanto?
300
In 1754 French settlers and Indians formed an alliance to fight colonists that began moving into the resources rich Ohio River Valley.
What is The French and Indian War?
400
Shortly after being elected the 7th President of the United States, he signed the Indian Removal Act into law.
Who is President Andrew Jackson?
400
In 1864, Major John Chivington led a group of settlers that killed several hundred Cheyenne Indians that were returning peacefully to their reservation.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
400
To become like the people around you
What is assimilate?
400
This document gave settlers in Plymouth the right to govern themselves and would inspire Americans later on.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
400
These were the first three permanent European settlements in North America.
What are St. Augustine, Jamestown and Quebec?
500
Shawnee chief who urged Indian groups to form alliances and fight for the Ohio River Valley, later dying in the War of 1812.
Who is Tecumseh?
500
Thanks to a trade relationship with Europeans, the Ojibwa were able to push this tribe west to the Great Plains Region where they would later become very powerful.
Who are the Lakota?
500
A relationship in which people or groups compete for the same thing
What is a rivalry?
500
John Rolfe's variety of this cash crop helped Jamestown survive and helped to start the slave trade in the Americas
What is tobacco?
500
U.S troops force the Cherokee, Creek, Seminole and other tribes to move west.