Facts : 1 1 19th century 1.1 Civil War 1.2 Removals and reservations 1.3 Native Americans and U.S
Facts : 2 Citizenship 1.3.1 Indian Appropriations Act of 1871 1.4 Education 19th century Tecumseh was the Shawnee leader of Tecumseh s War who attempted to organize an alliance of Native American tribes throughout North America
Facts : 3 As American expansion continued, Native Americans resisted settlers encroachment in several regions of the new nation (and in unorganized territories), from the Northwest to the Southeast, and then in the West, as settlers encountered the tribes of the Great Plains
Facts : 4 During the War of 1812, Tecumseh s forces allied themselves with the British
Facts : 5 After Tecumseh s death, the British ceased to aid the Native Americans south and west of Upper Canada and American expansion proceeded with little resistance
Facts : 6 Conflicts in the Southeast include the Creek War and Seminole Wars, both before and after the Indian Removals of most members of the Five Civilized Tribes
Facts : 7 Native American nations on the plains in the west continued armed conflicts with the United States throughout the 19th century, through what were called generally Indian Wars
Facts : 8 In the 1830s President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830, a policy of relocating Indians from their homelands to Indian Territory and reservations in surrounding areas to open their lands for non-native settlements
Facts : 9 O Sullivan coined the phrase, Manifest Destiny , as the design of Providence supporting the territorial expansion of the United States
Facts : 10 Manifest Destiny had serious consequences for Native Americans, since continental expansion for the United States took place at the cost of their occupied land
Facts : 11 The Indian Appropriations Act of 1851 set the precedent for modern-day Native American reservations through allocating funds to move western tribes onto reservations since there were no more lands available for relocation
Facts : 12 Civil War Ely Parker was a Union Civil War General who wrote the terms of surrender between the United States and the Confederate States of America
Facts : 13 Native Americans served in both the Union and Confederate military during the American Civil War
Facts : 14 At the outbreak of the war, for example, the minority party of the Cherokees gave its allegiance to the Confederacy, while originally the majority party went for the North
Facts : 15 Native Americans fought knowing they might