US HistoryChapter 11Section 2

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Dark Days in US HistoryMoving the Native Americans

◦ In the Southeast, “Five Civilized Tribes”: Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw, Choctaw Relocate – force people to leave land

◦ Indian Removal Act – federal government allowed to pay the Native Americans to leave Indian Territory – Congress created land in present-day

Oklahoma

◦ The Cherokees refused to leave Worcester vs. Georgia – Cherokee argued that the state

government could not force them to move (Marshall agreed and said only the federal government could)

◦ General Winfield Scott – forcefully led the Cherokee to the new land

◦ Trail of Tears

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Native Americans Fight BackBlack Hawk – Sauk chieftain, who led the

Sauk and Fox people in a fight back to Illinois (eventually beat)

Seminoles in Florida, led by Osceola, were the only successful group to retain the land◦ Guerrilla Tactics – making surprise attacks and then

retreating into covered areasThe Five Civilized Tribes took the eastern half

of Oklahoma◦ The land was formerly the Plains people’s (Osage,

Comanche, and Kiowa)◦ They developed government, schools, homes◦ They created the Lighthorsemen (police force)

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Checking for Understanding

__ 1. referring to surprise attacks or raids rather than organized warfare

__ 2. to force a person or group of people to move

A. relocate

B. guerrilla tactics

Define Match the terms on the right with their definitions on the left.

B

A