States
The area that is now Oklahoma.
What is Indian Territory?
The year the Indian Removal Act was signed.
What is 1830?
The Five Civilized Tribes
What is Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, Seminole
The name of the false treaty signed by a non official Cherokee member. John Ross fought this treaty.
What is Treaty of New Echota?
Two hardships the Native Americans faced on their journey west.
What is starvation, disease, racism, harsh weather conditions?
The state in which most of the Cherokee lived.
What is Georgia?
The person who signed the Act from Congress into law.
Name 1 way the Five Civilized Tribes changed their lifestyles in order to assimilate.
What is hunting/gathering to farming, fluid gender rolls to strict, and community land to individual ownership?
John Ross gathered this to try to fight the Treaty of New Echota?
Signatures of other Cherokee members who did not agree with the treaty.
The tribe that took a mostly water route to Indian Territory.
What is Seminole?
The state in which the Seminole lived.
What is Florida?
The land was more valuable
What is on the East side of the Mississippi?
This tribe established themselves as a nation with a government, laws, and police in this year.
What is Cherokee and 1827?
The US government considered all treaties signed by any tribe member, official or not, as this.
A legally binding treaty.
The name of the forced march given by the Cherokee.
What is Trail Where They Cried (Trail of Tears)?
The state where most of the Chickasaw and Choctaw lived.
What is Mississippi?
The Removal Act allowed the President to
What is make treaties with Indian tribes in exchange for their land?
The word used to describe what the Five Civilized Tribes were attempting to do with White Settlers to "fit in better."
What is assimilate?
The two tribes that had non official leaders sign treaties with the US government.
What is Cherokee and Seminole?
Total number of Native Americans who died in the stockades and during the march west.
What is 4,000?
The state where most of the Creek lived.
What is Alabama?
The court case that the Supreme Court's ruling in favor of the Native Americans was ignored.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
The leader of the Seminole Tribe who was captured and died in captivity.
What is Osceola?
The two tribes who recognized that the white settlers were unstoppable, signed legal treaties, and left.
What is Chickasaw and Choctaw?
Average number of miles traveled on the Trail of Tears.
What is 1,000?