Indian Removal Policy
Give another name for Indian Removal Policy.
What is Trail of Tears?
Name the country that ruled the colonies before the American Revolution.
What is England?
Name the President of the United States during The Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Who were the people that occupied the land before European arrival.
What are the indigenous people?
Name two of the three ways we studied that Latinos initially resisted.
What is newspapers, books, or art?
Name the president that defied the supreme court and forced Native Americans out of Georgia and Florida and sent them to Oklahoma.
Who is President Jackson?
What is taxation without representation?
Name the side in the war that seceded from the union.
What is the Confederacy?
Indigenous people passed down many creation stories to their people without writing them down. Name this method.
What are oral traditions?
Name an art technique that Latinos used to bring awareness to the struggles and perseverance that they faced and exhibited in American history.
What are murals?
Name two tribes that we studied that were directly affected by this policy.
Who are the Cherokee and the Seminoles?
This act allowed soldiers to stay in the homes of colonists so that they may live there and potentially spy on them.
What is the Quartering Act?
What was the name of the document that freed slaves in states that were in rebellion.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Name the technique Americans used to gain even more land from Native Americans.
What is break treaties?
In the case study we read, name the natural resource that was in dispute in the Southwest that had previously been free to harvest for Latinos.
What is salt?
Why did Southerners and President Jackson especially dislike the Seminoles?
They would free slaves and give them some freedom that they were never offered by the United States.
Explain why Native Americans mostly fought on the side of the British during the American Revolution.
What is the idea that Native Americans would be able to keep more of their land?
Name the group in The Civil War that remained loyal to the union but still was allowed to practice slavery.
What are the border states?
Name a struggle that Native Americans had when they went to war with America.
Since there were hundred of different tribes, Native Americans had difficulty uniting under one cause or leader in their battles.
Name a conflict in our case study that caused Latinos to resist.
What is closing the road and charging a fee to harvest the salt?
Explain what happened as a result of the Trail of Tears.
Many Native American children, women, and some men died of dehydration, starvation, exposure and disease as a result of the thousand mile walk.
True or False: Once America defeated the British, we transitioned to the Constitution as our governing document.
False; we first started with The Articles of Confederation, a weak document that gave little power to the federal government and most power to the states.
Name the general that finally surrendered to the Union in 1865 so that the United States could begin Reconstruction.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Name a more recent controversy with Native American and sports teams in America.
Since some American sports use Native Americans as their mascots, this can be dehumanizing. Some teams have changed their mascots to stop dishonoring Native Americans.
Explain what happened as a result of the U.S. War with Mexico.
Since Mexico refused to sell their land, America invaded Mexico. America was able to take lands from Mexico. Some of these lands included California, Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico.