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Westward Movement
Question | Answer |
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Native Americans believed he provided all the land anyone would ever need. | Great Spirit |
A group made of the Shawnee, Delaware, Miami, and Potawotami tribes | Indian Confederacy |
The peace treaty that ended the battle of fallen timbers, in which Native Americans had to give up Southeast quarter of the northwest territory to settlement. | Treaty of Greenville |
Opened all of the Northwest territory to settlement. | Treaty of Fort Wayne |
2,000 militant creek warriors who would fight to get what was theirs back | Red Sticks |
Defeated Red Sticks in Tennessee, 1814 | Andrew Jackson |
Joined forces with the British against the Americans during the war of 1812. | Techumseh and Tenskwatawa (The Prophet) |
Led by the prophet, a movement to bring back the old beliefs and traditional ways of the Native American Indian. | Cultural Revitalization |
Led by Cherokee, a realization that the white man was here to stay, & violence & opposition would be futile. Peace | Cultural Accommodation |
Native American tribe that began to accommodate and accept the culture of white man, and began acting more like them | Cherokee |
A language adopted by Cherokee as second language | English |
Created written laws and democratic constitution. | Cherokee |
Printed articles in English AND Cherokee | Cherokee Phoenix Newspaper |
Son of Cherokee mom and white trader, vowed to never learn white man's tongue. | Sequoyah |
Inspired by "three white hunters" with a book. Spent 12 years creating a written Cherokee language. | Sequoyah |
In the Cherokee language, 20,000 words were represented by how many written characters? | 86 |
"The Great American Dessert" | Oaklahoma |
Passed by congress in 1830, allowing the federal government to pressure the 125,000 NA East of the Mississippi to cede their ancestral land to the US & move to Indian territory. | Indian Removal Act |
Chief John Ross argued the legality of the forceful removal of Cherokees from their lands. In 1832, he sided with the Cherokee and recognized the right of the Cherokee as an independent nation to their own land and laws | Worcester v. Georgia |
______________ Cherokee walked up to 1,000 miles from Georgia to Oaklahoma | 18,000+ |
Over ___________ Cherokee died due to exposure, hunger, and disease on the Trail of Tears | 4,000+ (1/4) |
Polk used the idea of _________ the Oregon Country (OC) as part of his campaign in 1844 | annexing |
Oregon Country was made of present day... | Oregon, Washington, Idaho, parts of Wyoming and Montanna, as well as about half the Canadian province of British |
In 1824, only England and the US remained in the OC... They agreed to _____________ | Joint Occupation |
Tough independent men who made a living by trapping beaver and other critters, and many adopted the ways of the NA | Mountain Men |
Once a year, the Mountain Men would gather at a ____________. | Rendezvous |
Wanted to bring Christianity to the NA | Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, Henry and Eliza Spalding |
The 2 tribes that Dr. Whitman and his friends helped | Cayuse and Nez Perce |
The three trails that settlers followed to cross the Great Plains to the Pacific Ocean. | 1)The Oregon Trail 2)The California Trail 3)The Santa Fe Trail (Does not go to Pacific) |
The "jumping off" spot for the trail | Missouri |
The goal was a)_____________in Oregon, and b)_______________ in California. | a)Willamette Valley b)Sutters fort |