Indian Removal
Statehood
Five Tribes
Tribe Specifics
vocabulary
100
He was elected president of the United States in 1828.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
100
This is an ordinance from 1787 that stated that a territory had to have atleast 60,000 residents before it could seek state hood?
What is The Northwest Ordinance?
100
The tribes willingness to adopt the Civilized ways of the Americans is what earned them this name.
What is the five civilized tribes?
100
These tribes were primarily located in Mississippi before they were relocated.
Who are the Chickasaw and Choctaw?
100
The commission that was needed to help the Indians adjust to their new lands. Montford Stokes was appointed to be in charge of it.
What is the Federal Indian Commission? or What is the Stokes Commission?
200
Present day Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado were a part of this.
What is Indian Territory?
200
In 1817 these states both sought statehood.
What is Maine and Missouri?
200
These are the five major tribes in the Southeastern United States at the time of Andrew Jacksons Presidentcy.
What is The Cherokee Choctaw Creek Chickasaw and Seminole?
200
These tribes were located in parts of Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina before they were relocated.
Who are the Chickasaw and the Choctaw?
200
This is the minimum resources as in food and shelter needed to support life.
What is subsistance?
300
The definition of Indian Territoy from 1834.
What is and land in the western part of the U.S. that was not part of any other state or territory?
300
Maine and Missouri seeking statehood caused tensions to rise over this.
What is free states and slave states?
300
In 1830 this act was passed by Congress to remove the tribes from their eastern land and relocate them in the west.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
300
The Creek newcomers in Indian territory faced attacks by these tribes.
Who are the Delaware and the Osage?
300
This part Cherokee person invented the Cherokee alphabet.
Who is Sequoyah?
400
This is the area that is now Oklahomas western boarder and was a part of the land given to the Cherokees.
What is the Cherokee Outlet?
400
This person resolved the issue caused by Maine and Missouri seeking state hood. He created the Missouri compromise.
Who is Henry Clay?
400
This was the lifestyle of the tribes before they were considered civilized.
What is nomadic hunting and subsistance farming?
400
The Chickasaws agreed to relocate to a district with in this nation.
What is the Choctaw Nation?
400
To move from one place to another.
What is migration?
500
The first federal fort in Indian Territory.
What is Fort Gibson?
500
The Missouri Compromise stated this solution to Maine and Missouri seeking statehood.
What is the Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
500
This tribe was located in Florida.
Who are the Seminole?
500
Major Ridge signed this treaty. It gave the Cherokees 5 millions dollars for their eastern lands and they had two years to relocate.
What is the treaty of new Echota?
500
This kept other countries from settleing in the west. This was important because it gave President Jefferson and President Jackson pleanty of land to relocate the Indians to.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?