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Module 10 lesson 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| BLACK HAWK | Native American leader of Fox and Sauk Indians, he resisted the U.S.- ordered removal of indian nations from Illinois and raided settlements and fought the U.S. Army. |
| BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS | A govemment agency created in the 1800s to oversee federal policy toward Native Americans |
| WORCESTER V. GEORGIA | Supreme Court ruling that stated that the Cherokee nation was a distinct territory over which only the federal government had authority; ignored by both President Andrew Jackson and the state of Georgia |
| INDIAN REMOVAL ACT | A congressional act that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River |
| OSCEOLA | Florida Seminole leader, he resisted removal by the U.S. government despite an earlier treaty that Seminole leaders had been forced to sign. He was eventually captured and died in prison. |
| INDIA TERRITORY | An area covering most of present-day Oklahoma to which most Native Americans in the Southeast were forced to move in the 1830s |
| Contemporary | Living at the same time |
| SEQUOYA | American Indian scholar and craftsman, he created a writing system for the Cherokee language and taught literacy to many Cherokee. |
| TRAIL OF TEARS | An 800-mile forced march made by the Cherokee from their homeland in Georgia to Indian Territory; resulted in the deaths of almost one-fourth of the Cherokee people |
| Describe Jackson's response to Worcester v. Georgia. | ignored the Supreme Court's ruling some people wanted it but Jackson stuck with his decision. He has supplies for people. He started the Indian removal act. |
| What were the methods used to remove and relocate the Native in the 1830s? | The Indian removal act. It was when they stared to kick people out and move them somewhere else. |
| Explain the outcome of the Seminole and Sauk resistance. | |
| There is a mixed outcome. There was a forced removal. Some people remained in Florida. West land then got removed. |