Unit 2 Notes

Question 1

What was a consequence of the Indian Removal?

Answer 1

Osage and Kiowa were displaced

Question 2

What was the purpose of the Stokes Commission?

Answer 2

To settle disputes among the relocated tribes and the tribes already in the territory

Question 3

What did the petition that Chief John Ross and the Cherokee state?

Answer 3

It stated that the treaty of echoes did not represent them

Question 4

What were the 3 significant reasons for creating Fort Gibson?

Answer 4

1. Keeping peace among native tribes
2. To protect the southwest border of the US
3. To establish a military post for troops

Question 5

What was a result of Indian removal to the lands west of Mississippi?

Answer 5

It caused tribal resentment in the US

Question 6

Worcester v Georgia/President Andrew Jackson decision

Answer 6

Ignored it and allowed Georgia to claim tribal land

Question 7

What are the five tribes?

Answer 7

Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, and Seminole

Question 8

What did the construction of railroads cause?

Answer 8

challenge of tribal sovereignty because the railroads were constructed through land that was designated as tribal

Question 9

What are the reasons that native americans fought with the confederacy during the civil war?

Answer 9

1. the us military abandoned the forts in indian territory
2. each of the five tribes allowed slavery in indian territory
3. indian removal caused tribal resentment in the united states

Question 10

What is the significance of the massacre at the wichita?

Answer 10

The attack caused native american leaders to agree to stop fighting

Question 11

What are the factors of the red river war?

Answer 11

1. american indians did not receive the provisions promised by the us government
2. the transition to living on a reservation destroyed the identity of many plain indians
3. native american tribes were angered by the slaughter of the buffalo on the plains