Vocabulary
Important Events
People & Leaders
Life Changes for Native Americans
100

Lands given to Native Americans in exchange for their home territory.

reservations

100

The law passed in 1830 that forced Native Americans to move west.
 

Answer: What was the Indian Removal Act?

100

The Cherokee chief who went to the Supreme Court to fight removal.

John Ross

100

Native Americans were forced to give up their way of life and do this to fit in with white culture.

What does conform mean?

200

To move from one place to another, sometimes by force.

relocate

200

The long, forced march of Cherokee people in 1838 where thousands died.

Answer: What was the Trail of Tears?  

200

The president who ignored the Supreme Court and ordered Native Americans to move.

Andrew Jasckson

200

Native Americans on the Plains depended on this animal for survival.

What are Buffalo?

300

Large groups of animals living together in one area.

Herd

300

In 1876, General Custer and his soldiers were killed in this battle.
 

Answer: What was the Battle of Little Bighorn?

300

The U.S. Army leader defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

Who was General Custer?

300

Children in boarding schools were not allowed to speak their ________.

Native Language

400

Schools where students not only went to classes but also lived away from their families.

Boarding School

400

The U.S. government broke its treaty with the Lakota after this was discovered in the Black Hills.

Gold

400

The tribes forced to move included the Choctaw, Muscogee, Seminole, and this tribe.

  • Who were the Chickasaw (or Cherokee)?

400

For Native Americans, westward expansion of white settlers completely changed their  ____

 way of life