Unit 3 Settlement

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Unit 3Settlement

The Osage Trade by Oklahoma Artist Charles Banks Wilson.


Chapter 9

Civil War and Civil War and ReconstructionReconstructionIndian Territory Before the WarFarms and PlantationsSlavery in the Territory

Gopher JohnSlave Rebellion

Abandoned in Indian TerritoryConfederate Interests

Indian Sympathies with the South


Chapter 9

Civil War and Civil War and ReconstructionReconstructionTribal Divisions Over Alliances

The CherokeesThe Creeks

Battle of Round MountainRefugees

Destroying the TerritoryBattle of Honey Springs


Chapter 9

Civil War and Civil War and ReconstructionReconstructionWestern Indians in the WarRoss Joins the UnionGeneral Stand Watie

End of the WarNegotiating the Reconstruction

TreatiesConditions of the Treaties

Railroads and Public Grants


DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1. What role did geography play in the alignment of Indian Territory with the South in the Civil War?

2. What were the major reasons why Indian Territory joined with the Confederacy?

3. How did the tribes settle into a society similar to that of the Old South?

4. How did the Seminoles differ from the Cherokee in their attitude toward slavery?

5. Tell about the slave rebellion in 1842.


DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

6. How was the Cherokee leadership divided over the issue of taking sides during the Civil War?

7. Why was the Confederacy interested in Indian Territory?

8. What actions did the Plains Indian Tribes take in taking sides during the Civil War?

9. How did Reconstruction affect Indian Territory?

10.Discuss the role of John Ross in the Civil War as it was conducted in Indian Territory.


Rose Cottage, the home of Chief John Ross in Park Hill, was burned by General Stand Watie on October 28, 1862.


Indian recruits are sworn into the Army during the Civil War.


The Cherokee delegation to Washington, D. C., in 1866 included John Rollin Ridge,

Saladin Watie, Richard Field, E. C. Boudinot, and W. P. Adair.


Confederate agent Albert Pike signed treaties with the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Seminoles and Creeks in 1861. All

three tribes agreed to support the Confederacy.


General Stand Watie


Cherokee Chief John Ross and his second wife Mary B. (Stapler) Ross.



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