Vocabulary
A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country.
Colony
A confederacy of American Indian people of southeastern Massachusetts.
Wampanoag
Those who fought in the French and Indian War.
The British against the French with help from Native Americans.
Hardships faced on the Trail of Tears
Food, Disease, and Cold Winter
A trade that suffered greatly after European arrival led to the decline of Beaver numbers.
Fur Trade
A settler or inhabitant of a colony.
Colonist
A Native American tribe indigenous to Connecticut.
Pequot
Learned from Native Americans how to hide behind rocks and trees while fighting in war.
The French
Poor-quality land that was designated by the United States as the place for Native Americans to move to within two-years.
Indian Territory
This disease wiped out a large portion of the Native Americans fighting alongside the French Army in the French and Indian War.
Smallpox
Intrusion on a person’s territory or rights.
Encroachment
Pocahontas’s father and the leader of an alliance of Native Americans in Virginia.
Powhatan
This lieutenant led the British to several victories against the French, before deciding to fall back.
George Washington
Indian Nation who walked the Trail of Tears.
The Cherokee
Marriage between Pocahontas and this man led to a brief period of peace during the Anglo-Powhatan wars.
John Rolfe
A document specifying the rights of an institution – giving a person permission to do something.
Charter
A country that told extravagant tales of their "conquest of the Aztecs" inspiring other Europeans to conquer the Americas.
Spain
This country went in to massive debt at all costs to secure victory.
Great Britain
President who signed the Indian Removal act into law.
Andrew Jackson
This war began when an English trader was killed. Many Pequot were killed or sold into slavery.
The Pequot war
Process in which a minority group or culture comes to resemble a society's majority group, taking on their customs and traditions.
Assimilate
The English knew him as "King Philip"
Metacom
The French and British both wanted land in the Ohio River Valley.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He ruled that the Cherokee must move to Indian Territory.
John Marshall
This agreement ended the French and Indian War
The Treaty of Paris