| A | B |
|---|
| Sequoya | brillian Cherokee who invented a writing system for the Cherokee language |
| Indian Removal Act | 1830 law that called for the government to negotiate treaties requiring Native Americans to relocate west |
| Indian Territory | area to which Native Americans were moved - covers what is now Oklahoma and parts of Kansas and Nebraska |
| Trail of Tears | forced removal of the Cherokee from their homeland to Indian Territory |
| Osceola | leader during the Second Seminole War |
| assimilate | to absorb into a culture |
| Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole | called the Five civilized Tribes because they adopted many aspects of white culture |
| adpted white customs including dress; owned farms and cattle ranches; written language; newspaper; children attended schools and they drew up a constitution based on the U.S. Constitution | reasons why the Cherokee tribe was considered the most successfully assimilated according to U.S. policy and standards |
| He thought that the govt. had the right to regulate where Native Americans could live because he viewed them as conquered subjects living in the United States. They could assimilate and become American citizens or move west of the Mississippi. | Jackson's view of Native Americans living east of Mississippi |
| Quakers, Mass. congressman | American groups that opposed the relocation of the Native Americans |
