5 Civilised Tribes: Cherokee

Question 1

Why were the Cherokee civilised?

Answer 1

Home to many white settlers who had married Cherokee women.

Question 2

When did the Cherokee Phoenix become a newspaper?

Answer 2

1828

Question 3

When did the Cherokee Nation adopt a constitution based on the US?

Answer 3

1827

Question 4

How did the Cherokee act ‘civilised’?

Answer 4

• Replaced their small stick-and-wattle houses with large structures made of logs, lumber, and bricks.
• Textile makers wove cotton and wool cloth to use at home / sell.
• Many took up Christianity.
• Schoolchildren learned arithmetic and wrote/spoke English and Cherokee.
• Farmers tilled the rich earth using White-American methods and equipment.
• Wealthy Cherokee purchased Black slaves.

Question 5

When was Gold found in Georgia?

Answer 5

1828

Question 6

Which Cherokee Phoenix article are the quotes from?

Answer 6

4th February 1829

Question 7

How did the Cherokee nation view their neighbour’s greed for land?

Answer 7

“Our frontier neighbours in Georgia are moving in fast and settling on the lands belonging to the Cherokees. Right or wrong they are determined to take the country.”

Question 8

Quote of the laws: what were the punishments for squatting on Cherokee land?

Answer 8

• offender shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars
• Suffer imprisonment not exceeding 12 months

Question 9

What should Jackson do in the event of squatters?

Answer 9

• employ such military force

Question 10

How did the Cherokee view themselves?

Answer 10

“the Cherokees have never. to our knowledge, resorted to forcible measures, but have peaceable retired, and have patiently waited for the interference of the United States.”

“faithful to the treaty contracts”

Question 11

First Indian boarding school?

Answer 11

Carlisle Indian Industrial School

Founded: 1879
State: Pennsylvania