click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Native Amer to CW
History of Native Americans from Colonial period to Civil War
Question | Answer |
---|---|
He helped the Pilgrims learn how to cultivate corn to survive at Plymouth | Squanto |
In 1675-6 he led the last rebellion against New Englanders in what is the per capita bloodiest war in American history. He was eventually captured and beheaded | King Philip or Metacom |
He led a war against Indians in western Virginia. When he didn't get support from the royal governor of Virginia, he led his followers to Jamestown to burn it. | Nathaniel Bacon |
In 1763 he led a revolt that sought to break the British claim on Indian lands around the Great Lakes; in response the British issued the Proclamation of 1763 | Pontiac |
After this battle, the Miami chief, Little Turtle, is defeated by Anthony Wayne | Fallen Timbers |
This agreement led to the Miami Indians ceding most of Ohio to the United States | Treaty of Greenville |
This Shawnee leader forged an Indian state out of the Old Northwest Territory and united tribes in their struggle against American settlers; in the War of 1812 he allied with the British, but was killed at the Battle of the Thames | Tecumseh |
Tecumseh's brother, he claimed to have had a divine revelation leading him to denounce white culture and return to Indian ways | The Prophet |
He crushed the Creeks in the South at the Battle of Horsehoe Bend; this defeat forced the Creeks to move west of the Mississippi | Andrew Jackson |
This provided for moving all Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River | Indian Removal Act |
This stated that the federal treaties with the Cherokees supercede state law and so they could not be moved to the Indian territories | Worcester v. Georgia |
He led a war in 1831-2 in Illinois and Wisconsin; eventually his warriors lost and were forced to move west of the Mississippi. Lincoln's only military experience came from a few weeks service in this war | Black Hawk |
He led the Seminoles in resistance to Indian removal; he was captured despite a flag of truce and imprisoned | Osceola |
This law gave 160 acres of public domain land free to any settler who resided on it for five year and so accelerated white settlement of the West | Homestead Act |