Antebellum Native American Experiences

What did George Washington believe was the best solution to the Indian problem?

• He wanted to civilize the Native Americans

• He wanted to civilize the whites

• He wanted to incorporate Native American customs into America

• He waned to civilizer the Spanish

How did George Washington plan to civilize the Native Americans?

• converting them to christianity

• teaching them to read and write

• adapt to a European-style economy based on private ownership of property

• send them into isolation to learn the ways of americans

tensions between Native American nations and the United States escalated because of

• America’s desire for new land made them look westward

• Native Americans desire for new land

• Spanish desire for new land

• European desire for new land

The Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Creek, and Cherokee native nations embraced American customs and became known as the

Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, Florida and Tennessee) was valuable. Which tribes lived in these areas?

• Five Civilized Tribes

• Spanish Settlers

• Cherokee and Seminole

• Creek and Choctaw

What methods did settlers use to gain control of the lands owned by Native American

• stole livestock

• burned and looted towns and homes

• committed mass murder

• squatter on land that did not belong to them

• gently lead them out of their towns

Several states passed laws limiting Native American rights and began to illegally move into Native American territory.

• True

• False

President Andrew Jackson advocated for what?

• Indian Removal

• Indian Rehabilitation

• Native American Removal

• Native American Rehabilitation

Who signed the Indian Removal Act into law?

• Andrew Jackson

• Abraham Lincoln

• George Washington

• John F. Kennedy

What law gave the federal government the power to exchange Native land east of the Mississippi River for land out west that was acquired through the Louisiana Purchase ( the territory that would become Oklahoma )

• Indian Removal Act

• Confederates

• Compromise of 1850

• Tariff of 1832