Indian Removal & the Five Tribes
This act forced Native American tribes to move west of the Mississippi River.
What is Indian Removal?
The written documents used by the Five Tribes to organize their governments.
Constitutions
During the Civil War, tribes were __________, with some siding with the Union and others with the Confederacy.
divided
These were the settlers who sneaked into Indian Territory before the land was legally opened.
Sooners
The Sequoyah Constitution was written in 1905 by the leaders of these tribes.
Five
This was the journey of the Five Tribes to Indian Territory.
Trail of Tears
The number of branches or departments of government that most tribal constitutions had.
Three
The largest Civil War battle in Indian Territory was the Battle of __________ __________.
Honey Springs
The Land Run of 1889 opened these Lands to settlement.
Unassigned
The Sequoyah Constitution was rejected by this government body.
Congress
This president signed the Indian Removal Act into law.
Andrew Jackson
This is where the Cherokee capital was located.
Tahlequah
After the Civil War, this is what tribes had to sign with the U.S. government.
treaties
The number of years Homesteaders had to live on land before getting a property title.
5 years
This act from 1906 allowed Oklahoma and the Indian Territories to join as one state.
Enabling
Name any two of the Five Tribes.
Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole
Name one way tribes showed they were self-sufficient before removal.
Built schools, courts, governments, or other infrastructure
This is what many tribes lost large amounts of as punishment for siding with the Confederacy.
land
Name one town founded overnight during the Land Run of 1889.
Guthrie, Norman, Moore, or Oklahoma City
The first temporary state capital of Oklahoma was located in this city.
Guthrie
The main goal of the Indian Removal Act.
To open Native land for white settlement
The reason written constitutions were important before the Civil War.
They showed tribes were civilized and capable of self-government
The major change Reconstruction treaties required tribes to make.
They had to allow freedmen (formerly enslaved people) into their nations
The difference between Boomers and Sooners. Boomers did this, and Sooners did this.
Boomers waited for land openings legally, Sooners entered early illegally.
In this month on the 16th of 1907, Oklahoma officially became the 46th state.
November