Ch 8 Seminoles & Other Settlers

The Seminoles were originally of the

• Cherokee

• Oconee

• Osage

• Shawnee

The first person to call them Seminoles was the British agent

• John Smith

• John Stuart

• John Winfield

• John Day

The Seminoles were at one time a part of the

• Creek Nation

• Chickasaw Nation

• Cherokee Nation

• Choctaw Nation

Before coming under the authority of the United States, the Seminoles were under the rule of

• France

• United States

• Great Britain

• Spain

American commissioners and Georgian land owners often went into Seminole country looking for

• more land

• new slaves

• Seminoles who attacked white settlements

• runaway slaves

The Seminoles retreated into the dangerous, mysterious land called

• the Florida Keys

• the Bayou

• Everglades

• Tampa Bay

The first signed agreement with the Seminoles was the Treaty of

• Payne's Landing

• Fort Gibson

• Fort Lauderdale

• Camp Moultrie

The representative for the United States who signed the treaty for removal in 1832 was Colonel

• Andrew Jackson

• James Gadsden

• Andrew Johnson

• Winfield Scott

Active resistance to removal was organized by the Seminole

• John Ross

• Stand Watie

• Osceola

• Chief Charley Emathla

In 1837, the person sent into Florida to stop the Seminole Wars was General

• Jesup

• Scott

• Jackson

• Grant