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| What did the Cherokees exchange for one promise of respect and coexistence? |
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| What are 2 ways that Indians started to act like white people? |
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1. they built houses made of logs, lumber, or bricks.
2. they took up Christianity. |
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| In what year did the newspaper, The Cherokee Phoenix, become the voice of Native-Americans? |
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| Even after they changed their culture, what did many white people think of Indians as? |
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| What did Jackson plan on doing with the Indians that were on the land that he later promised to the whites? |
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| move them to unsettled praire west of the Mississippi River. |
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| In 1835, the U.S. government got all of the Cherokee land in exchange for what? |
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| $5 million & parcel of Western Prairie. |
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| Who was the next President that created an army to evict the Indians? |
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| Once they got the Cherokees off the land, what did they do to the home left behind? |
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| they looted, occupied, and burned them. |
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| How many miles was the journey to the West? |
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| Why did the Cherokees have to wait in camps during the summer on the way West? |
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| What did they do with the dead bodies if the ground was frozen or there wasn't time to bury the bodies? |
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| they covered them with blankets. |
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| How did they end up surviving? |
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| a Lieutenant requested extra blankets for them to use. |
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| What did the survivors call this journey? |
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