Westward Expansion - The Seminole Resist Removal lyrics

DO NOW – Answer the questions below. ____ 1. What action did the U.S. government take towards Native Americans from 1820 to 1840? (a) paying Native American Indians a fair price for their land (b) pa**ing a law giving all Native American Indians United States citizenship (c) encouraging Native American Indians to take jobs in factories (d) removing Native American from their tribal lands and placing them on reservations ____ 2. What action did the Cherokee take to resist their removal from Georgia and North Carolina to the West? (a) sued the state of Georgia in the courts (b) destroyed neighbors' farms and businesses (c) went to war against the U.S. government (d) staged a protest called the Trail of Tears ____ 3. The ruling in the Supreme Court case of Worcester v. Georgia (a) established the policy of Indian removal. (b) determined that Georgia laws did not apply to the Cherokee. (c) was enforced by President Andrew Jackson. (d) established protective tariffs for imported goods. Guided Reading In Georgia, the Cherokees were fighting back in their own way, without violence. They tried to fit into the white man's world by becoming farmers, blacksmiths, and carpenters. They set up a governing council and welcomed Christianity and white missionaries. After their chief, Sequoyah, invented a written form of their language, they printed a newspaper in both English and Cherokee. But although the Cherokees were taking up the ways of white society, the whites still wanted their land. Georgia pa**ed laws that stripped the Cherokee of their land and outlawed the Cherokee's government, meetings, and newspaper. Any Native American who encouraged others to stay in the homeland could go to prison. White missionaries who said that the Cherokees should be allowed to remain on their land also received punishments such as four years at hard labor in prison. Once again, the federal government arranged a removal treaty with a few Cherokees, who signed it behind the backs of most of the tribe. And once again the government sent the army to enforce the treaty. 7,000 Cherokees were rounded up and crowded into cages. On October 1, 1838, the first group set out on what came to be called the Trail of Tears. 4,000 Cherokees died of hunger, thirst, sickness, or exposure in the stockades or on the brutal march westward. But in December 1838, President Martin Van Buren told Congress about “the entire removal of the Cherokee Nation of Indians to their new homes west of the Mississippi.” Congress' decision to remove the Cherokees, Van Buren said, had had “the happiest effects.” 3. How did the Cherokee fight “back in their own way, without violence”? Explain. (2 sentences) 4. Martin Van Buren said that Congress decision to remove the Cherokees from their land had “the happiest effects.” Make an argument stating how Van Buren is wrong. (2 sentences) Other Native Americans decided to fight back against U.S. troops and avoid removal. Chief Black Hawk, a leader of Fox and Sauk Indians, led his people in a struggle to protect their lands in Illinois. By 1832, however, the Sauk forces were running out of food and supplies, and by 1850 they had been forced to leave. In Florida, Seminole leaders were forced to sign a removal treaty that their followers decided to ignore. A leader named Osceola called upon his people to resist force, and the Second Seminole War began. Then in December 1835, a government official ordered the Seminoles of Florida to gather at a meeting place to begin their journey west. No one showed up. The Seminoles had decided to fight. Osceola was captured and soon died in prison. His followers, however, continued to fight. 1. Explain: What did Osceola want his people to do? (1 sentence) The Seminole started making surprise attacks on white settlements along the coast, striking quickly from hideouts in the interior. They murdered white families, captured slaves, and destroyed property. General Winfield Scott led U.S. troops into Florida to fight the Seminoles, but they found no one. Two-thirds of Scott's officers resigned from the army, worn out by mud, swamps, heat, and disease. 2. Explain: How did the Seminole resist removal by the U.S. government? Explain. (1-2 sentences) The war lasted eight years and cost $20 millions and 1,500 American lives. But the Seminoles were a tiny force fighting a huge nation that had great resources. Finally, in the 1840s, they got tired. The Seminoles asked for a truce but were arrested. Over 4,000 Seminole were removed and hundreds were k**ed. Their leader, Osceola, died in prison, and the war died out. Small groups of Seminole had resisted removal, and their descendants live in Florida today. 3. Compare: What did Chief Black Hawk and Osceola have in common? (1-2 sentences) 4. Evaluate: On a scale from 1-5, how effective was Native American resistance to removal? Explain. (1 = very ineffective; 5 = very effective) (2 sentences) 5. Identify: Who does the person on the right represent? Who does the person on the left represent? Right = ___________________________________ Left = _____________________________________ 6. Infer: What is the artist of this political cartoon trying to say? Explain. (2 sentences) Video on Jackson's Indian Removal Policy 7. an*lyze: What does it mean that the “Indian Removal Act effectively nullified all earlier treaties granting tribes control of land as sovereign (free and independent) nations? (1-2 sentences) 8. Connect: A Cherokee soldier who was with Andrew Jackson at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend said if he'd known in 1814 what Jackson was going to do to Cherokee nation he would have shot him on the spot. Would you have made the same decision? Explain why or why not. (2 sentences) 9. an*lyze: Jackson believed that he had the right and responsibility to interpret the Constitution as he saw fit. Is this Jackson's responsibility? Explain why or why not. (2 sentences) 10. an*lyze: Why did Jackson have “intensely personal” reasons for removing Native Americans from western lands? (1-2 sentences) 11. Evaluate: What is the most important idea you took away from this video? (1-2 sentences) 12. Evaluate: What is the most shocking idea you heard about in this video? (1-2 sentences)