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Indian Removal Act
Cherokee Resistance
Other Indians Resist
Chase Metzger's Totz Magotz Magnificent House of Haphazardness
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He wanted to open the Indian settlements, from Georgia to Mississippi, to American farmers.
Why did President Jackson want to move Indians to the west?
100
The Cherokee's 800 mile forced walk.
What was the Trail of Tears?
100
He was a leader of the Fox and Sauk Indians.
Who was Chief Blackhawk?
100
He died of disease after being captured.
How did chief Osceola die?
200
He argued that the removal to Indian Territory would protect Indians from further conflicts with American settlers.
What did John Calhoun argue about the Indian Territory?
200
A Cherokee who invented the Cherokee language.
Who was Sequoyah?
200
The Fox and Sauk were protecting their lands in Ilionois.
In what state were the Fox and Sauk protecting their lands in?
200
It began in 1835.
In what year did the Second Seminole War begin?
300
It is U.S. land that is now Oklahoma, and Congress planned to move Native Americans there.
What is the Indian Territory?
300
Their government was modeled after the U.S. Constitution.
What did the Cherokee model their government after?
300
Osceola was the leader of the Seminoles, who called upon his people to resist with force.
Who was chief Osceola?
300
It ended in 1842
When did the Second Seminole War end?
400
The Choctaw were the first Indians sent there.
Who were the first Indians sent to Indian Territory?
400
They were removed because of gold found on their land in Georgia.
Why were the Cherokee removed from their land?
400
The result of that decision was the Second Seminole War.
What was the result of Osceola's decision to "resist with force".
400
The Court stated that only the federal government, not the states, had authority over Native Americans.
What did the Court state in the Worchester vs. Georgia case?
500
To manage Indian removal to western lands, Congress approved the creation of a new government agency.
What is the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
500
They began to remove them in 1838.
In what year did the U.S. troops begin to remove all Cherokee to Indian Territory?
500
The Seminoles escaped to the Everglades, where they hid.
Where in Florida did some Seminoles manage to escape and hide in?
500
Congress passed the act in 1830.
When did Congress pass the Indian Removal Act?