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Ch. 7. Territorial Govt.

Name: _________________             Pd.__________
Ch. 6. (remember numbers are written in word form)
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Occurred on November 29, 1847 when the Cayuse Indians stormed the Waiilatpu Mission, killing Marcus and Narcissa , as well as 12 other residents of the mission. Was the culmination of years of tension and resentment between the Cayuse Indians and the missionaries.
The authority of a state or people to govern itself/themselves.
1830 - passed by Congress and signed into law by President Andrew Jackson. Required all Indians in the southeastern United States to be relocated onto reservations west of the Mississippi River.
The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
Territories were established by Congress with fixed borders and a territorial government.
1838, the U.S. Army marched onto Cherokee Lands and forced the Indians to leave their homeland and march 1000 miles to internment camps in Oklahoma.
A nomadic tribe that occupied territories at the heads of the Walla Walla, Umatilla, and Grande Ronde Rivers and from the Blue mountains to Deschutes River in Washington and Oregon. The tribe has always been closely associated with the neighboring Nez Percé and Walla Walla.
1848 act of Congress creating the Oregon Territory.
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Agreements made by two separate countries. The United States government negotiated these with Indian tribes to secure peace with them and to open up territory for white settlement.
1853, created out of the Oregon Territory. Politicians in Washington, D.C. feared that the Oregon Territory was too large and would be too influential of a state when it eventually gained statehood.
Belief that it was the fate of the American people to spread throughout the North American Continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans.
President Pierce appointed him Washington's first Territorial Governor. Treated Indians with arrogance.
Land set aside for use by American Indian tribes. Created primarily in the 19th century and negotiated by treaty.
Land set aside for use by American Indian tribes. Created primarily in the 19th century and negotiated by treaty
The process of adapting or adjusting to the culture of a group or nation, or the state of being so adapted.