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OKC History 5
Question | Answer |
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Impressment | Enforcement of military or naval service on able-bodied but unwilling men through crude and violent methods. |
Missouri Compromise | This legislation admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a non-slave state at the same time. |
Migrate | To move from one place to another. |
Cede | To turn over. |
Sustinence | The bare minimum of resources needed for survival. |
Assimilation | The process of one group becoming part of another. |
Syllabary | Alphabet for syllables. |
Indian Removal Act | The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River. |
Allotment | A specified portion of land. |
Lottery | A contest whose winner is chosen by a drawing. |
Thomas Jefferson | President who thought Indians in the Southeast should voluntarily move to the Indian territory and provided incentives |
William McIntosh | Chief of the Lower Creek tribe, killed for signing the removal treaty. |
Greenwood Leflore | Chief of the Choctaw tribe. |
Sequoyah | Invented the Cherokee alphabet. |
Samuel Worcester | The missionary to the Cherokee who brought their case to the Supreme Court. |
John Ross | Cherokee Chief who refused to recognize the Treaty of New Echota. |
Matthew Arbuckle | Established Fort Gibson, the first Federal fort in Indian Territory. |
Major Ridge | Cherokee leader who signed the New Echota Treaty that moved the Western Cherokee to Indian Territory |
Andrew Jackson | President who forced the Indians to move despite a Supreme Court ruling. |
Osceola | Seminole Chief who resisted the U.S forces in the Second Seminole War. |
This chief of the Lower Creek, had a tribal law passed that forbade the sale of any more tribal land under penalty of death. | William McIntosh |
The Indian Removal Act was designed to do what? | Negotiate treaties to remove the Indians from the southeastern United States. |
What was the Battle of Cut Throat Gap? | The OSAGE wiped out the Kiowa. |
When Private John Burnett said, "Murder is murder and somebody must answer and explain the streams of blood that flowed in Indian Country in the summer of 1838." What was he referring & who did he believe must explain what happened? | He wanted answers from the President (Andrew Jackson) & the administration. He was talking about the Trail of Tears. |
Why did the government establish forts in various locations in what would become Oklahoma in the early 1800s? | To control the Indians, and provide security. |