Vocabulary
What is a conflict?
a struggle or disagreement
What was the first European settlement in the United States? And when was it?
1607 Jamestown, Virginia
What did the Native Americans do when the Euro-Americans began to steal their land?
They fought back
What did treaties describe?
Boundaries of land given to settlers and Native Americans living in a place?
Who created more conflicts between different Native American tribes?
The Euro-Americans.
What is a treaty?
a written political agreement between two or more groups
What was very valuable to the Euro-Americans in the New World?
raw materials
Why did the colonists massacre the Native Americans in 1637?
for land and resources
How were Native Americans "tricked" into signing treaties?
They didn't understand the language.
In the 1600s the Native American and French fur trade caused what?
Caused animals like beavers to go extinct
What is a massacre?
the cruel killing of many people
What was the main crop for profit in 1619?
Tobacco
In the 1700s why did conflicts rise between France and England? What did it start?
The French and Native Americans controlled the fur trade. It started the French and Indian War of 1754.
What was the battle of Wounded Knee?
Was the last Native American resistance. 1890 the Lakota were massacred after they stopped fighting U.S. soldiers in South Dakota.
What was the Beaver Wars of 1701?
The Iroquois fought the Huron (allies of the French) for land and resources.
What does assimilate mean?
to become like the people around you
What did the Euro-Americans trade with the Native Americans?
Goods (products) for food
Why did the Native Americans (Iroquois) join the Euro-Americans in the French and Indian war against the French?
Because the Native Americans believed that the Euro-Americans (British) would give them their land back from the French.
What was the Sand Creek Massacre?
In 1864 the Cheeyenne fought Settlers led by Major John Chivington killed hundreds inn Sand Creek, Colorado.
Why did different Native American tribes work together in the mid 1700s?
To oppose the Euro-Americans taking their land and making them sign treaties
What is an act?
a law
How did the Native Americans influence the Euro-Americans?
Shared ideas, shared new goods and ways of life, showed how to prepare food so that it wouldn't go bad, and showed what plants could be used as medicine.
Who won the French and Indian War?
The Euro-Americans (British)
What was the Trail of Tears and how did it start?
Was when Euro-Americans forced Native Americans off their last east of the Mississippi River in the 1830s. Many died of disease and bad weather.
What was the Indian Removal Act of 1830? What did this later cause?
President Andrew Jackson passed this law to force Native Americans off their land west of the Mississippi River. This Cause the Trail of Tears.