(Lecture 7) Westward Expansion and Indian Removal

Question 1

Who were the 5 ‘civilised’ tribes?

Answer 1

Choctaw
Cherokee
Muskogee
Chickasaw
Seminole

Question 2

What was the Treaty of Greenville? When?

Answer 2

1795
Concluded hostilities between US and an Indian Federation (headed by Little Turtle).
Indians ceded most of future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan.

Question 3

What was the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit? When?

Answer 3

1830
First removal treaty
Ceded 11 million acres of Choctaw Nation in what is now Mississippi for about 15 million acres of Indian Territory

Question 4

What is Cherokee Nation v. Georgia? When?

Answer 4

SC ruled Cherokee Nation was sovereign, Georgia couldn’t enforce state laws.
1831

Question 5

What is Worcester v. Georgia? When?

Answer 5

1832
Samuel Worcester and his missionaries were living on NA land.
Georgia forbade white people from living on NA lands unless they obtained a license and swore an oath of loyalty to the state.
They didn’t do this so he was arrested.

Question 6

What happened to the populations of western states?

Answer 6

Mass growth

Question 7

What is the Cumberland Gap?

Answer 7

The first great gateway to the west

Question 8

What was the population growth of Ohio between 1810 and 1850?

Answer 8

230,000 to around 2 million

Question 9

What was the Louisiana Purchase?

Answer 9

1803
From France
$15 million

Question 10

Who is Toussant L’Overture

Answer 10

Leader of the slave rebellion in Saint Domingue in 1805

Question 11

What is land allotment?

Answer 11

federal policy of dividing communally held Indian tribal lands into individually owned private property

attempt to open up Indian lands to settlement

Question 12

What was the Trail of Tears?

Answer 12

forced relocation of Eastern Woodlands Indians of the southeast region to Indian territory west of the Mississippi River

100,000 removed from home
15,000 died

Question 13

Who is Chief John Ross?

Answer 13

chief of Cherokee Nation.
Little John.
resisted US seizure of his people’s lands in Georgia

Question 14

What was the Seminole resistance, 1835-42? Who was the leader?

Answer 14

Osceola.
Govt tried to remove them from homes.
Murder of Charley Emathla.
Indians used guerrilla tactics in Everglades.
Osceola and other chiefs went to St Augustine under a truce to attend a parley with General Jesup.
Indians were seized and imprisoned.
Osceola removed to SC and died there.