Native Americans

Question 1

Trail of Tears? (4)

Answer 1

4000 to 8000 natives died on trail.
March should have taken 3 weeks but took 3 1/2 months,
800 miles,
In the middle of winter- one blanket, no coats/shoes, rotten food, small rations

Question 2

Who was John Ross?

Answer 2

Principal Chief of the Cherokee nation

Cherokee father and Scottish mother

Question 3

Cherokee Supreme Court case?

Answer 3

Supreme Court declared Cherokee could not be removed from their land.
President Andrew Jackson ignored this and made them march anyway.

Question 4

What caused the massacre at Fort Mystic?

Answer 4

The English and Pequots had been raiding each other and the Pequots were not dying from disease, so the English decided to wipe them out.
They tried to kill them by combat, but there were too many, so they burned all the structures.
Eventually, almost all Pequots at Fort Mystic were killed.

Question 5

Cultural differences between the English and the Pequot?

Answer 5

English- men do most of the work, Christian, only land with roads and buildings was usable
Natives- men hunt but women produce 80% of food, worshipped spirits that they accessed through dreams/tobacco, untamed land is valuable

Question 6

Myths about the first Thanksgiving? (6)

Answer 6

1. Nobody knows when the first Thanksgiving really was because Natives have several Thanksgivings a year. November is just the harvest.
2. Mayflower people were called the ‘saints’ or the ‘separatists’, not the pilgrims
3. Colonists didn’t know natives were there. This is untrue. Natives had been sent back to Europe several times and sold as slaves. Natives were seen as uncivilized so colonists thought they could take the land for themselves.
4. Pilgrims invited natives to Thanksgiving and provided most of the food. Really, the pilgrims were struggling to get food and the Natives saw them, so the Natives brought 5 deer and many turkeys to feed the 90 natives and pilgirms.
5. Thanksgiving is a happy holiday
6. Pilgrims and natives have a happy friendship, when really the pilgrims kept claiming native land for the king and pushed the natives off that land.

Question 7

The Columbus we don’t talk about? (5)

Answer 7

Columbus came back after the first time he found America, but this time with many ships, soldiers, and dogs.
He captured Natives to bring back to Spain then sold them into slavery.
Natives were forced to mine for gold.
Used native corpses as dog food.
They cut pieces of flesh off the natives to check the sharpness of their blades.