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Indian Removal Act
Indian Removal Act 4-5.4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What kind of impact did territorial expansion and related land polices have on Native Americans? | A negative impact |
| What happened with the Native Americans as more and more settlers moved father west? | They took more land and created conflict with the tribes. |
| What did the United States government do with it's power of the Indian Removal Act? | Made treaties and forced tribes to move from their ancestral lands. |
| What were Native Americans promised in the west? Reservations | Reservations |
| True or False: Settlers and the military often kept their treaties with the Native Americans. | False |
| What did the repeated settling of land eventually cause between the settlers and Native Americans? | Conflict that later led to a series of Indian wars. |
| The soldiers and settlers used these conflicts with the Native Americans as an excuse to do what? | To kill Native Americans |
| After the Native Americans were defeated, they were forced to move into ____________ in the period after the Civil War. | Reservations |
| Where were the Native Americans forced to move to | present day Oklahoma |
| The forced journey west for Native Americans is called? | The Trail of Tears |
| What are some hardships that were faced on the Trail of Tears? | starvation, sickness, death, extreme cold weather |
| About how much of the Native American population died on the journey west? | About one-fourth of the population |
| What did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 allow new lands to do? | To organize as territories and later as states when their population of white settlers reached a certain number. |
| What provided for public schools and outlawed slavery in the region? | Northwest Ordinance of 1787 |
| The Northwest Ordinance was the first time the national government had taken a stand against what? | The spread of slavery. |
| Name the states that the region later became in the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. | good faith |
| What law provided land and money the president could use to enter treaties with Native American nations? | The Indian Removal Act of 1830 |
| What president signed the Indian Removal of 1830? | Andrew Jackson |
| What happened when tribes resisted to the American take over? | The Military took over at gun point |
| True or False: Some Native American tribes moved father west voluntarily. | True |
| What was the Trail of Tears? | Supervised move of the Cherokee from their homes |