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Chapter 11-2 by Mind Map: Chapter 11-2

1. Moving Native Americans

1.1. "The Five Civilized Tribes", the Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw, lived in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida

1.2. American settlers wanted the government to remove the Native Americans from those states and relocate them to west of the Mississippi River.

2. Indian Removal Act

2.1. Congress passed the Removal Act in 1830, allowing the federal government to pay Native Americans to move.

2.1.1. The US never actually paid the Natives to move. Instead, they used military force.

3. The Trail of Tears

4. Vocabulary

4.1. Relocate- to force a person or group to move

4.2. Guerrilla Tactics- surprise attacks and raids

5. The Trail of Tears

6. The Cherokee Nation

6.1. In the late 1700s, settlers in the state of Georgia wished to remove the Cherokee Nation. In 1832, the Natives took the issue to court in the Worcester v. Georgia case. The Chief Justice, John Marshall, ruled in the Natives' favor; however, Jackson said to ignore the ruling, allowing Indian removal to continue.

7. Native American Resistance

7.1. Very few Native Americans successfully resisted the removal. However, the Seminole Nation made a very good attempt.

7.2. In 1835, the Seminoles, led by Chief Osceola, began their war of resistance, They were, for the most part, successful, using guerrilla tactics to launch surprise attacks like the Dade Massacre.

7.2.1. Most of the 110 soldiers who were at the Dade Massacre died

7.2.2. By 1842, more than 1500 American soldiers died in the Seminole wars.

8. Important People

8.1. Chief Black Hawk of the Sauk Nation

8.1.1. Led Sauk and Fox tribes back to their homeland of Illinois in an attempt to recapture the land they gave up in a treaty.

8.2. Chief Justice John Marshall

8.3. Andrew Jackson

8.4. Chief Osceola of the Seminole Nation