Seminole wars

Question 1

First Seminole War: date

Answer 1

1816 - 1819

Question 1

Who are the Seminoles?

Answer 1

• Tribe formed in Florida in early 18th century as Native Americans fled from the south-east.

Question 2

Causes of the First Seminole War:

Answer 2

• Stalemate in the war of 1812

Question 3

First Seminole War
Who led American forces?

Answer 3

President Andrew Jackson

Question 4

First Seminole War
Where did Jackson invade?

Answer 4

• Spanish Florida
• west Florida

Question 5

First Seminole War
Who protested against it?

Answer 5

British and Spanish

Question 6

Results of the First Seminole War?

Answer 6

• Spanish ceded Florida to USA

Question 7

Results of the First Seminole War for the Seminole?

Answer 7

1823 - required to leave northern Florida for a reservation in the centre of Florida.

Question 8

Second Seminole War: date?

Answer 8

1835 - 1842

Question 9

What caused the Second Seminole War?

Answer 9

American orders for Seminole to leave Florida completely under Treaty of Payne’s Landing (1832)

Question 10

Who led Seminoles in the Second Seminole War?

Answer 10

Osceola

Question 11

Second Seminole War
What did Osceola lead?

Answer 11

Guerrilla war to frustrate the American forces.

Question 12

American tactics in the Second Seminole War?

Answer 12

Destroyed farms and villages.

Question 13

What happened to the surviving Seminole of the Second Seminole War?

Answer 13

About 3000 survived.
Moved to lands which became Oklahoma.

Question 14

Effects of the Second Seminole War for Americans?

Answer 14

• 1500 men
• $50 million

Question 15

Third Seminole War: dates?

Answer 15

1855 - 1858

Question 16

What was the Third Seminole War?

Answer 16

Remove final Seminoles who had refused to move to Oklahoma.
- Government provoked the conflict by sending parties to encroach on Seminole lands.

Question 17

How did the US force NA off their land in the Third Seminole War?

Answer 17

• Cut off food supplies

Question 18

Where did some Seminole stay after the Third Seminole War?

Answer 18

Everglades:
- Natural region of tropical wetland.