Vocabulary #1
A crop that is sold for profit.
What is a Cash crop?
Slaves that escaped to Florida for freedom
What are Black Seminole?
An area of land controlled by a nation
What is a territory
Seminole helped to protect the Black Seminole from slave owners
How did the Seminole and Black Seminole help each other?
An area of land set aside for Native Americans
What is a reservation?
People that move to Florida from the Appalachian Mountains and became cattle ranchers.
What is a cracker?
A plantation owner
What is a planter?
The Spanish did not think they could defeat the Americans and signed a treaty.
How did Florida become a US territory?
To move from one place to another
What is migrate?
Forced to do most of the work on the plantations for no pay
What are enslaved African Americans?
To put into order
What is Organize?
After years of fighting, some Seminole continued to live in the Everglades
What is the result of the Seminole Wars?
To do hard and exhausting work
What is to toil?
They were originally Native Americans from tribes such as the Creek and the Apalachee
What are the Seminole?
To ask or suggest something
What is propose?
The Creek were enemies of the British
Why the Spanish in Florida welcomed the Creek?
The first of a non-native people who settled a region
What is a pioneer?
These people moved into Florida before many other whites lived here.
What are pioneers?
To complete or to do
What is perform?
The Spanish needed more settlers in Florida
Why the Spanish in Florida welcomed the Creek?