Moving Native Americans
Native American Resistance
The Seminole Wars
100
Allowed federal govt. to pay Native Americans to move West.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
100
Led a force of Sauk and Fox people back to Illinois, their homeland.
Who is Black Hawk?
100
Seminole Chief.
Who is Osceola?
200
Created by Congress in present-day Oklahoma.
What is the Indian Territory?
200
Wanted to reclaim the land forced to be given up because of a treaty.
Who are the Sauk and Fox people?
200
Native American tribe who lived in Florida.
Who are the Seminole?
300
Native American tribe who refused to give up their land.
Who are the Cherokee?
300
The area where surviving Sauk and Fox Native Americans were chased to.
What is (present-day) Iowa?
300
Only Native American tribe who successfully blocked their removal.
Who are the Seminole?
400
Supported Georgia's efforts to remove the Cherokee, ignoring the Supreme Court's ruling.
Who is President Andrew Jackson?
400
This state's militia and federal troops killed thousands of Sauk and Fox people.
What is Illinois?
400
The Seminole decided to go to war with this country rather than leave Florida.
Who is America?
500
17,000 of the Cherokee people refused to honor the treaty and were finally forced to move west.
What is the Trail of Tears?
500
Sauk Chieftain.
Who is Black Hawk?
500
These two joined forces to attack white settlements along the coast of Florida using guerilla tactics.
Who were the Seminole and African Americans?