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CHAPTER 6
What effect did the Civil War and
Reconstruction have on Indians?
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What were the “Golden Years” of
Indian Territory?
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How were farms and plantations set up?
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What place did slavery hold in the
Indian culture?
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Who was Gopher John?
Gopher John
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What happened when slaves
rebelled in 1842?
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Why did Union forces leave Indian Territory
during the Civil War?
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Why did most Indians sympathize
with the Confederacy?
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What were the issues guiding Indians on
which side to support?
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What factors determined Cherokee
support?
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How did the Creeks lead the push for
neutrality?
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What was the Battle of Round
Mountain?
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What convinced neutral Indians to join
the Union effort?
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Why did the Civil
War affect Indian
Territory
so negatively?
Indian recruits are sworn into
the army during the Civil War.
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Confederate agent Albert Pike signed treaties with the Choctaws, Chickasaws,
Seminoles, and Creeks in 1861. All four tribes agreed to support the Confederacy.
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What happened to Western Indians in
the Civil War?
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Why did John Ross defect to the Union?
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What Indian became a Confederate
general?
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Who was the last Confederate general to
surrender?
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What were “Reconstruction” treaties?
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What requirements were mandated
by the treaties?
The Cherokee delegation to Washington, D.C., in 1866, included John Rollin
Ridge, Saladin Watie, Richard Field, E. C. Boudinot, and W. P. Adair.
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What public grants were given to
railroads?
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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 Indian
Territory joined with the Confederacy?
3. How did the tribes settle into a society
similar to that of the Old South?
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4. How did the Seminoles differ in their attitude
toward slavery from that of the Cherokees?
5. Tell about the slave rebellion in 1842.
6. How was the Cherokee leadership divided
over the issue of taking sides during the Civil
War?
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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
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.
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