7.4-Jackson and the American Indians

Before the first Creek migration, there were only about one hundred American Indians in Florida because

• most had moved north and joined the Creek tribes.

• most had moved west for better land and weather.

• European diseases had killed most of them.

• strong hurricanes had wiped them out.

Which statement best describes the first Creek migration in the 1760s?

• The Creeks moved from west of the Mississippi to settle in Florida.

• The Creeks moved to share land with white settlers in northern Florida.

• The Creeks moved farther south from Georgia and Alabama to Florida.

• The Creeks moved to Georgia and Alabama from the Florida territory.

What was the main result of the Battle of Horseshoe Bend?

• A treaty was created to give the Creek land in Florida.

• The Red Stick faction defeated Jackson’s US forces.

• The Creek lost millions of acres of land in Georgia and Alabama.

• A treaty was created to divide land between the Creek and white settlers.

A side group or an offshoot of a main group is a

• cult.

• sect.

• faction.

• committee.

Which statement best illustrates General Andrew Jackson’s attitude toward the American Indians?

• He interfered in the Creek civil war.

• He refused to fight the peaceful Creek.

• He became known as an Indian fighter.

• He wanted peace with the factions.

The US government wanted to expand into Florida

• because the Seminole population was growing very quickly.

• to protect the US government from invasion from the south.

• to fulfill the idea that it was the United States’ destiny to own Florida.

• because the Seminoles were harboring US formerly enslaved people.

he most important outcome of the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1821 was that

• Florida became a territory of the United States.

• Spain no longer had a US presence.

• Spain gave up rights to Alabama and Georgia.

• Florida became the twenty-seventh state to enter the Union.

During the time of the US invasion of Florida, Andrew Jackson was

• elected to the US Senate.

• serving as a general in the US Army.

• elected the seventh president of the United States.

• serving in the US House of Representatives.

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 authorized the removal of American Indians

• east of the Mississippi River.

• in Georgia and Alabama.

• south of the Ohio River.

• in the Florida territory.

Which statement correctly describes the result of the Second Seminole War?

• The Seminoles killed more than ten thousand US troops.

• Most of the Seminoles refused to relocate to Indian Territory.

• A treaty was signed that was favorable to the Seminoles.

• This conflict was the least costly of the Seminole Wars.