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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