1. Important People
1.1. Black Hawk
1.1.1. Sauk leader who took the Sauks back to Illinois to recapture their land
1.2. Sequoya
1.2.1. Inventor of the Cherokee alphabet
1.3. Andrew Jackson
1.3.1. President during the time of the Indian Removal Act and the resistance who hated the Native Americans
1.4. Chief Justice John Marshall
1.4.1. Ruled that the state of Georgia had no right to interfere with the Native Americans when they brought the case to the Supreme Court
1.5. Winfield Scott
1.5.1. General who brought 7,000 troops to move the Native Americans west and threatened to use force against them
1.6. Osceola
1.6.1. Leader of the Seminole who took them to fight for their land back and won the fight, but he was captured
2. Moving Native Americans
2.1. Indian Removal Act
2.1.1. Congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830 to move the Native Americans to the west
2.1.1.1. In 1834 Congress created the Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma for the Native Americans from the Southeast
2.2. The Cherokee Nation
2.2.1. The Cherokee's refused to give up their land, since the federal treaties in 1790 said that they were their own nation
2.2.1.1. The Cherokee sued the government and went to the Supreme Court, but Jackson ignored the judge's ruling
2.3. The Trail of Tears
2.3.1. Most of the 17,000 Cherokee refused to honor the treaty they made with the government in 1835, but General Winfield Scott threatened to use force to make them leave.
2.3.1.1. The Cherokee leaders gave in and marched out to the west, where many died of harsh weather and it became known as the Trail Where They Cried, then it was called the Trail of Tears by historians.
3. Native American Resistance
3.1. The Saulk chieftain named Black Hawk led the Sauk and Fox people back to Illinois to recapture the area, but the state militia fought back and killed most of the Native Americans.
3.2. The Seminole people from Florida were the only Native Americans who completely and successfully resist their removal, then went to war against the United States with escaped African-American slaves.
3.2.1. They attacked white settlements in Florida and only a few of the 110 American soldiers survived.
3.3. By 1842 more than 1,500 American soldiers were killed, but most of the Seminoles moved west of the Mississippi
3.3.1. Later, part of the Louisiana Purchase was used for Native American land
4. Vocabulary Words:
4.1. Guerrilla Tatics
4.1.1. Different military plans, such as hit-and-run, raids, ambushes, etc.
4.2. Relocate
4.2.1. To move from one location to another