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What immediately followed the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
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Creation of a permanent homeland for Native people west of the Mississippi River
Independence from Britain
Forced migration of indigenous people from southern states, the expansion of slavery and cash crop plantations across the south
The building of the railroad across the Great Plains, connecting US states west of the Mississippi River to US states east of the Mississippi River
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Which of the following tribal nations was split up due to settler colonialism into the Upper ________ and Lower ________?
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Muskogee/Creek
Choctaw
Seminole
Cherokee
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What immediately followed the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
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Which of the following tribal nations was split up due to settler colonialism into the Upper ________ and Lower ________?
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In 1907, "Indian Territory" would become what state?
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What did the Indian Removal Act of 1830 give President Andrew Jackson the power to do?
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The "Red Sticks" were...
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The Choctaw are considered one of the oldest Indigenous Nations in the United States... What was true of their ancestral homeland?
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Which of the following treaties set off the "Trail of Tears," or the Cherokee's forced march to Indian Territory?
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True or False: The Seminole wars were the most costly American Indian wars the US fought, and cost the US government $40 million dollars.
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True or False: In 1832, the US Supreme Court sided with the Cherokee Nation and stated it was "unconstitutional" for Georgia to push the Cherokee Nation off their land.
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True or False: Rather than violent resistance, the Cherokee utilized "assimilation" to gain political power and, for a time, maintain independence in the US.
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True or False: After the Creek Red Sticks lost at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend to the US and its Creek allies (which Andrew Jackson fought at before becoming president), Creek people who had assimilated and fought on the side of the US got to keep their land.
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Enslaved Africans considered this tribal nation a safe haven, and often ran away from plantations to live here.
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Which of the following Cherokee leaders signed a treaty with the US WITHOUT the consent of the head chief and rest of the Cherokee tribal nation?
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All of the following were terms of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek EXCEPT...
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What does Puritan leader John Winthrop mean when he says that the Puritans "shall be as a City upon a Hill" in 1630?
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The phrase "as long as water runs and grass grows" would be remembered bitterly by indigenous people since it ultimately came to symbolize...
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The English colony of Jamestown is significant for all of the following reasons EXCEPT...
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Mercantilism can best be described as...
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In the last two paragraph's of Andrew Jackson's State of the Union address, he makes all of the following claims EXCEPT:
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In the FIRST paragraph of his speech, Black Hawk's TONE can best be described as...
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In the LAST paragraph of his speech, Black Hawk's message can best be summarized as...
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Settler colonialism can best be described as...
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True or false: The population of the buffalo in North American decreased from around 100 million to 750 in roughly 150 years.
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Which of the following pieces of evidence could be used to prove that the US army committed genocide in the Great Plains by "deliberately inflicting conditions meant to destroy a group" (#3 on the genocide convention)?