Section 2: Conflict over Land

1. westward expansion

2. Seminole people: from florida, they were the only Native Americans who successfully resisted their removal

3. President Andrew Jackson: the seventh president, he proposed the Indian Removal Act to the native americans and didn't hold up his end of the bargain.

4. Cherokee people: from Georgia basically a separate nation, and very civilized

5. When the native americans left they were forced to relocate which means to move somewhere else or to move from one location to another.

6. Sauk/Fox: from Illinois, tried to get their land back and failed and got retained with force and over 4.500 native americans died.

7. The map they took moving west

8. the five civilized tribes that were moved from Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia.

9. even though the Cherokee were peaceful people Scott threatened to use force if they did not move.

10. the cherokee tribe being forced leave by the European settlers in 1829

11. An act was proposed upon the Native Americans about moving them out of their homes and states and the act was called the Indian Removal Act.

11.1. The act allowed the federal government to pay the Native Americans to move west, which they actually never did.

12. In 1838 General Winfield Scott led an army of 7.000 troops that came to remove the Cherokee from their homes

13. When the african americans and native americans came together they used guerrilla tactics making surprise attacks and then retreating back to where they were hiding.

14. General Winfield Scott