Native American Resistance Quiz Flashcards
The first permanent European colony was
Jamestown
The first permanent European settlement’s chief aim was
Financial profit
When the Powhatans were the ones starving, instead of the English, the colonies traded four hundred bushels of corn for what?
A mortgage n their whole countries
Kidnapped by the colonists
Pocahontas
In 1762, an eloquent chief and brilliant military leader rose to power among the indigenous of the NW… What was the name of the ruling?
Pontiac and his Confederacy won the Proclamation of 1763
Who said, “Could it not be conceived to send the small pox among the disaffected tribes? We must on this occasion use every stratagem to reduce them.
Jeffery Amherst
What distinguished the Puritans from the Catholic missionaries in the Spanish-dominated parts of the Americas?
They did not try to convert the heathens to Christianity as the thousands of Catholic missionaries did
On the pretext of the killing of two English sea captains, the Puritans made a punitive expedition in the nation’s territory.. The Puritans took children hostage. What was the name of this nation?
Pequots
This Native American leader, who once lived on all the land from Narraganset Bay to Cape Cod, rallied twenty thousand indigenous from various nations to rise up in rebellion
Metacom, the English called him King Phillip
He believed that if the Indians of North America do not cast our lot with the British that it will not be long before our last hunting ground will be taken from us by the colonists. He also was known for his humane treatment of enemies
Tehcumseh
The state passes a law that among other things does the following: confiscate all Cherokee land, abolishes all authority of the Cherokee government, prohibits any gathering of Cherokee people and declares void any contracts between Indian and white unless witness by two men
Georgia
By 1820 this nation of Native Americans had their own written language and a bilingual newspaper published in their own language as well as English. Their language was so complex that professional ethnologists of the time could not figure out how it was written
Cherokee
This man who flees to the mountains to escape forcibly removed from his ancestry oh man. He is promised that if you surrenders thousands of Cherokee will be allowed to remain on their land. After surrendering he is put on trial and commanded to death. Before going till he tells his youngest son who is sparred execution to love the land and never leave it. Because of his alternate sacrifice a Cherokee reservation still exists in the smoky mountains
Tsali
To demonstrate the difference between the colonizing attitude towards property and the Native American attitude if are helpful: to tame a savage you must tie him down to the soil you must make him understand the value of property and benefits of it separate ownership. And, one does not sell the earth upon which people walk. Who said the latter quote?
Crazy Horse
This person was involved in ensuring that forts stopped being built, did not trust the whites until the forts were abandoned, and had warriors set fire to them at the troops left. The policy of not building more forts was one of the few times that a treaty agreeing to stop colonial policy was dictated by the indigenous people
Red Cloud
