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April Test Review
Five Civilized Tribes
Question: two ways the Five Civilized Tribes conformed to the ways of white Americans
Answer: Two of these:
- establishing schools
- adopting European-style farming practices
- converting to Christianity
- building homes like their white neighbors
Question: the tribe that lived the farthest north
Answer: Cherokee
Question: four of the six states in which the Five Civilized Tribes' nations were located
Answer: Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Mississippi
North Carolina
Tennessee
Question: the four Civilized tribes whose names begin with the letter "C"
Answer: Cherokee
Chickasaw
Chocotaw
Creek
Question: the tribe whose response to the Indian Removal Act was to go to war
Answer: Seminole
Indian Removal Act
Question: the discovery of THIS in Cherokee Nation led to the passage of the act
Answer: Gold!
Question: the reason why settlers and the United States government wanted the land of the Chickasaws
Answer: to get their fertile land to grow and make money from cotton
Question: the U.S. territory, now a state, to which the Tribes were relocated
Answer: Oklahoma
Question: the year the Indian Removal Act was passed
Answer: 1830
Question: the first tribe to agree to leave their homelands
Answer: Choctaws
King Cotton
Question: the first major cash crop in Colonial and early America that preceded cotton
Answer: Tobacco
Question: why only small amounts of cotton were farmed in the South during most of the 1700's
Answer: too difficult and time-consuming to clean by hand
Question: the machine, invented in 1794, that sped up the process of cleaning cotton and removing seeds
Answer: Cotton Gin
Question: the machine, invented in 1785, that allowed cotton fibers to be quickly woven into cloth
Answer: Power Loom
Question: according to Solomon Northup, the amount of cotton a slave was expected to pick each day
Answer: 200 pounds
Cherokee Nation
Question: the two chiefs each tribe elected
Answer: War Chief and Peace Chief
Question: Cherokee Nation was located at the foot of this range
Answer: Appalachian Mountains
Question: the name given to the forced relocation journey of the Cherokee Indians
Answer: "the Trail of Tears"
Question: the name of the building, in the center of the Cherokee community, where ceremonial and public meetings were held
Answer: Council House
Question: the Cherokee clan that shares its name with a starchy, tuberous crop
Answer: Wild Potato
Name It
Question: the U.S. president who signed the Indian Removal Act
Answer: Andrew Jackson
Question: the inventor of the machine that separates cotton fibers from their seeds
Answer: Eli Whitney
Question: the name of the man who in 1814 obtained a charter to establish a cotton factory along the Charles River in Waltham, Massachusetts
Answer: Francis Cabot Lowell
Question: the name of the Tennessee congressman who argued against the Indian Removal Act
Answer: Davy Crockett
Question: the name of the Cherokee silversmith who invented a system for writing the Cherokee language
Answer: Sequoyah