5.1. Relocate - to force a person or group of people to move
5.2. Guerrilla Tactics - Referring to surprise attacks or raids rather than organized warfare
6. People
6.1. Andrew Jackson -
6.2. Cherokee - Native American Tribe
6.3. Sauk/Fox - Native American Tribe
6.4. Seminole - Native America Tribe
6.5. John Marshall - 4th chief justice of U.S. supreme court.
6.6. Osceola -
7. Facts
7.1. - Andrew Jackson supported Indian Approval Act.
7.2. - Indian removal act passed in 1830. The act allowed the federal government to pay native Americans move west.
7.3. In 1834 Congress created Indian Territory, an are in present day Oklahoma, for native americans from the southeast.
7.4. - The Cherokee nation refused to give up there land . In treaties of the 1790s the federal government recognized cherokee people in Georgia as a seperate nation with there own laws. Georgia refused to recognize cherokee laws. John Marshall ruled that Georgia had no right to interfere wit the cherokee only the federal government could have authority of matters involving cherokee, Jackson supported Georgias efforts to remove the cherokee .
7.5. - In 1835 the federal government persuaded few cherokee to sign a treaty giving up their peoples land but most cherokees refused to honor the treaty. They wrote a protest letter to the government and people of the U.S. In 1838 General Winfield Scott and an army of 7000 federal troops came to remove the cherokee from their homes and lead them west. Their forced journey west becam known as the Trail Of Tears.
7.6. In 1832 the Sauk chieftain, Black Hawk, led a force of Sauk and Fox people back to Illinois, there homeland. Illinois state militia and federal troops soldiers responded with force. They chased the Fox and Sauk to the Mississippi river and slaughtered most of the native americans as they tried to flee west . Osceola and some of his people refused to leave Florida. Seminole decided to go to war against the U.S. Guerilla attacks were used by making suprised attacks and then retreating. In 1842 only a few scattered groups of native americans lived east of the Mississippi. The 5 civilized tribes were relocated in the eastern half of Oklahoma on lands claimed by several plains groups, including the Osage, Comache and Kiowa. U.S. then let the tribes live in peace.
