6.3 Conflict with American Indians

The conflicts between white settlers and Native Americans was mainly over

• land

• culture

• various alliances

The Proclamation Line of 1763 separated

• the area over which Tecumseh had power from the rest of the country

• areas where white settlers felt safe and areas where they felt endangered

• the area in which the British allowed white settlers to settle from that which they did not

• the Native Americans who sided with the British and those that sided with the Americans

The Indian Removal Act involved Native Americans giving up their land in exchange for

• new lands west of the Mississippi River

• payments in money and goods

• the choice of living peacefully with settlers or moving

• a permanent peace treaty and their choice of other land

What was the main reason that the Trail of Tears was such a dreadful journey?

• it was a long march

• the Cherokees did not want to go

• the soldiers on the march were cruel

• the forced march took place in the winter