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Indians & Oregon
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who did the US sign a treaty with to acquire Oregon? | Britian |
| Who was in the "Five Civilized Tribes"? | Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Choctaw, and Chickasaw |
| What did the Indian Removal Act allow? | The federal gov't to pay Native American to move west off their ancestral land to "Indian Territory" |
| Where did most of the support for the Indian Removal Act? | Southern democrats (farmers), but the bill was conservetional |
| How did the Native Americans act? | Acceptance, fighting via war, and fighting via court. |
| Which tribe fought via court? | Cherokee took case to supreme court, they ruled in their favor, but Jackson ignored that and forcefully removed them creating the trail of tears. |
| Which tribe fought via war? | Seminole, they were successful and kept some of their land |
| What is the estimate number of natives relocated west? | 50,000 |
| Manifest Destiny? | The belief that the United States was destined by God to expand west to the Pacific ocean. |
| Who were the first Americans in Oregon? | Fur Traders |
| What was Oregon Fever? | The mass migration of thousands of Americans to Oregon |
| Approximately how long was the Oregon Trail? | 2000 miles long |
| How many settlers died along the way (disease, starvation, accidents.)? | 1 in 10 settlers |
| What happen to the Whitmans? | They unknowingly brought measles with them killing almost half of the Cayuse Native Americans |
| What line of latitude did the US and the British set their border to? | 49 degrees north |
| What did "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight" mean? | The US would do anything for that land even go to war for it |