As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs
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According to Chapter 7, what was the approximate number of Indians living east of the Mississippi River in 1820?
View answer and explanationWhat was Thomas Jefferson's proposed method for acquiring Indian lands, as described in Chapter 7?
View answer and explanationWho was the Shawnee chief that attempted to unite the Indians against the white invasion, advocating for a common and equal right in the land?
View answer and explanationWhat was the significance of Andrew Jackson's 1814 treaty with the Creeks, according to the text?
View answer and explanationHow many Indians east of the Mississippi were forced westward under the presidencies of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren?
View answer and explanationWhat was the main argument of Lewis Cass in his 1830 North American Review article supporting Indian Removal?
View answer and explanationWhat was the famous, and later bitterly recalled, phrase used by Andrew Jackson to promise Indians security in their new lands west of the Mississippi?
View answer and explanationAccording to the 1826 census of the Cherokee Nation, which of the following did they NOT possess?
View answer and explanationWhat was the Supreme Court's ruling in Worcester v. Georgia?
View answer and explanationApproximately how many Cherokees died during their confinement and subsequent forced march westward known as the Trail of Tears?
View answer and explanationWhat justification did President Jackson give for Indian Removal in his second Annual Message to Congress in December 1830?
View answer and explanationThe Seminole War, which began in 1818, is described in the chapter as leading to what territorial acquisition by the United States?
View answer and explanationWhat was a primary reason southern slaveowners were agitated by the Seminole Indians in Florida?
View answer and explanationWho was the Senator from New Jersey who spoke eloquently against the Indian Removal bill in Congress?
View answer and explanationWhat was the result of the House of Representatives vote on the Indian Removal bill?
View answer and explanationWhat tactic was used to persuade fifty Choctaw delegates to sign the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, ceding their land?
View answer and explanationWhat event in Georgia in 1829 led to an invasion of Cherokee territory by thousands of whites and the destruction of Indian property?
View answer and explanationWhat was the central argument of the Cherokee nation in their 1830s memorial pleading for justice?
View answer and explanationAccording to Dale Van Every, what forces were primarily responsible for driving the policy of Indian removal?
View answer and explanationWhat was the fate of the Treaty of New Echota, signed in 1836 for the removal of the Cherokees?
View answer and explanationWho wrote an open letter to President Van Buren in 1838 protesting the Cherokee removal treaty?
View answer and explanationIn the period from 1814 to 1824, treaties with southern Indians resulted in whites taking over three-fourths of which two territories?
View answer and explanationWhat was the American response after Chief Black Hawk raised a white flag to surrender during the Black Hawk War?
View answer and explanationWho was the U.S. general in command of the Cherokee removal known as the Trail of Tears?
View answer and explanationWhat was the cost in American lives and money of the eight-year Seminole War, as mentioned in Chapter 7?
View answer and explanationAccording to the chapter, what was the primary reason the War of 1812 was fought?
View answer and explanationWhat was Jackson's response to mutinies among his enlisted men during the Creek War?
View answer and explanationWhich Native American group was NOT mentioned as one of the 'seventy thousand Indians east of the Mississippi' who were forced westward under Jackson and Van Buren?
View answer and explanationWhat was the name of the Cherokee newspaper, printed in both English and the new Cherokee written language?
View answer and explanationThe chapter describes the Seminole tribe as practicing a form of resistance that was different from the nonviolent resistance of the Cherokees. What was it?
View answer and explanationHow did the state of Georgia react to the Supreme Court's decision in Worcester v. Georgia?
View answer and explanationWhat was the consequence for Creek families whose warriors had volunteered to help the U.S. army fight the Seminoles, based on a promise of protection?
View answer and explanationWhat happened to the aged steamer Monmouth, which was carrying 611 Creek Indians across the Mississippi?
View answer and explanationWho was Osceola?
View answer and explanationWhat does the chapter cite as the primary reason for the American Revolution, from the perspective of westward expansion?
View answer and explanationThe phrase 'Indian Removal' is described in the chapter as a polite term for a process that cleared the land for what specific economic developments?
View answer and explanationWhat was the fate of the Creek Indians who remained on their individual plots after the Treaty of Washington?
View answer and explanationIn his surrender speech, Chief Black Hawk accused the white men of all of the following EXCEPT:
View answer and explanationWhat was the significance of the discovery of gold in Cherokee territory in 1829?
View answer and explanationThe Treaty of Camp Moultrie in 1823 required the Seminoles to do what?
View answer and explanationWhich American president's administration promoted the idea of Indian Removal, with Andrew Jackson as a key executor of the policy?
View answer and explanationWhat was the foundation principle of traditional Indian government, as described by Van Every and a Moravian minister quoted in the chapter?
View answer and explanationWhat was President Martin Van Buren's message to Congress in December 1838 regarding the Cherokee Removal?
View answer and explanationDuring the Second Creek War, starving Creeks began raiding white farms. How did the U.S. Army respond?
View answer and explanationWho was John Donelson, mentioned in Chapter 7 as an early land speculator in Indian lands?
View answer and explanationThe first major battle of the Second Seminole War, on December 28, 1835, resulted in what outcome?
View answer and explanationWhat was the American population in 1790, and how many lived within 50 miles of the Atlantic Ocean, according to statistics in the chapter?
View answer and explanationThe chapter argues that land was indispensable for the development of what economic system?
View answer and explanationAfter the War of 1812, Cherokees who fought with Jackson swam a river to help win which crucial battle?
View answer and explanationIn the Treaty of Grenville, as part of a different conflict, the U.S. government made a promise regarding Indian lands that was similar to many other broken promises. What was it?
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