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Native Americas assimilated into American culture
by adopting European ways
. For example, the Cherokee wore western style clothes, built plantations, built ranches, and developed a writing system which helped them have the ability to write their Constitution.
How did the Cherokee react to the Indian Removal Act?
Most of the Cherokee, including Chief John Ross, were outraged and unwilling to move,
and they reacted with opposition
. They did not believe the government would take any action against them if they elected to stay.
What is unique about the Cherokee story in the larger theme of American Indian resistance to US expansion?
What is unique about the Cherokee story in the larger theme of American Indian resistance to US expansion?
The Cherokee attempted to assimilate and use American legal channels to resolve the conflicts with white settlers.
What caused the Native American resistance?
Native Americans resisted
the efforts of the Europeans to gain more land and control during the colonial period
, but they struggled to do so against a sea of problems, including new diseases, the slave trade, and an ever-growing European population.
What was one challenge the Cherokee faced when they arrived in Indian territory?
The Cherokee people called this journey
the “Trail of Tears
,” because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. Over 4,000 out of 15,000 of the Cherokees died.
What did the Cherokee do to assimilate into early nineteenth century American society?
The Cherokee Indians were forced to leave their lands. It was designed
to encourage the breakup of the tribes
and promote the assimilation of Indians into American Society. Dawes' goal was to create independent farmers out of Indians — give them land and the tools for citizenship.
What was not a result of the Indian Removal Act?
Several tribes resisted removal,
causing conflicts to erupt
. Some tribes were forcibly removed, causing distrust for the government. … The Cherokee were forced west along the Trail of Tears years later.
What did the Cherokee call the Trail of Tears?
In the Cherokee language, the event is called
Nunna daul Tsuny
— “the trail where they cried.” The Indian Removal Act was spawned by the rapidly expanding population of new settlers which created tensions with the American Indian tribes.
What was the primary reason behind the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
To achieve his purpose, Jackson encouraged Congress to adopt the Removal Act of 1830. The Act
established a process whereby the President could grant land west of the Mississippi River to Indian tribes that agreed to give up their homelands
.
Why was the Cherokee forced to move?
The removal of the Cherokees was
a product of the demand for arable land during the rampant growth of cotton agriculture in the Southeast
, the discovery of gold on Cherokee land, and the racial prejudice that many white southerners harbored toward American Indians.
What were the last acts of Native American resistance?
Two weeks later on December 29, 1890,
the Seventh Cavalry killed more than 300
Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee Creek in the Dakota Territory. That confrontation marked the end of Indian resistance.
What are examples of native resistance?
- Divide and conquer: the Dawes Act of 1887. …
- The massacre at Wounded Knee and the AIM occupation. …
- Boarding schools and extreme assimilation efforts. …
- The Indian Relocation Act of 1956. …
- The 1969 occupation of Alcatraz Island. …
- The Walleye Wars.
What was the greatest act of Indian resistance in North American history?
Several thousand Pueblo warriors razed the Spanish countryside and besieged Santa Fe
. They killed 400, including 21 Franciscan priests, and allowed 2,000 other Spaniards and Christian Pueblos to flee. It was perhaps the greatest act of Indian resistance in North American history.
Who is the most famous Cherokee Indian?
- Sequoyah (1767–1843), leader and inventor of the Cherokee writing system that took the tribe from an illiterate group to one of the best educated peoples in the country during the early-to-mid 1800s.
- Will Rogers (1879–1935), famed journalist and entertainer.
- Joseph J.
What did the Cherokee believe in?
They believed
the world should have balance, harmony, cooperation, and respect within the community
and between people and the rest of nature. Cherokee myths and legends taught the lessons and practices necessary to maintain natural balance, harmony, and health.
What are Native American features?
The several waves of migration are said to account for the many native linguistic families (see Native American languages), while the common origin is used to explain the physical characteristics that Native Americans have in common (though with considerable variation)—Mongolic features,
coarse, straight black hair,
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