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12 Cards in this Set
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Black Hawk
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Sauk leadere that was strong about his beliefs
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Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek
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Agreement in which the Choctaw gave up more than 10 million acres of land in Mississippi and accepted removal to Indian Territory
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Trail of Tears
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an 800-mile forced march the Cherokee made from their homeland in Georgia to Indian Territory; resulted in the deaths of almost one quarter of the tribe's members
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Indian Removal Act
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congressional act that authorizedthe removal of Indians from east of the Mississippi River to Indian Territory
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Worcester v. Georgia
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Supreme Court ruling that the Cheokee Nation was a distinct territory over which only federal government had authority; ignored by both President Andrew Jackson and the state of Georgia
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Bureau of Indian Affairs
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Government agency created in the 1800s to oversee federal policy toward American Idians
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Sequoyah
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produced a writing system for the Cherokee in 1821
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Osceola
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A Seminole leader
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John Ross
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Cherokoee chief
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Why do you think the U.S. government had difficulty defeating the Seminole?
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The Seminole was powerful and had many people. Osecola would also not give up.
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Why did U.S. officials support an Indian removal policy?
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So American farmers could move into the Indians land, and the Indians in the Southeast could move to the lands in the West.
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From what present-day state were the Seminole removed?
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The present-day state is Florida.
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