2. What effect did the Civil War and Reconstruction have on Indians?
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What effect did the Civil War and Reconstruction have on Indians?

3. What were the “Golden Years” of
Indian Territory?

4. How were farms and plantations set up?

5. What place did slavery hold in the
Indian culture?

6. Who was Gopher John?
Gopher John

7. What happened when slaves
rebelled in 1842?

8. Why did Union forces leave Indian Territory
during the Civil War?

9. Why did most Indians sympathize
with the Confederacy?

10. What were the issues guiding Indians on which side to support?

11. What factors determined Cherokee support?

12. How did the Creeks lead the push for neutrality?

13. What was the Battle of Round Mountain?

14. What convinced neutral Indians to join the Union effort?

15. Why did the Civil War affect Indian Territory so negatively?
Indian recruits are sworn into the army during the Civil War.
Oklahoma Historical Society

16. Illustration by Charles Banks Wilson
Confederate agent Albert Pike signed treaties with the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Seminoles, and Creeks in All four tribes agreed to support the Confederacy.
Illustration by Charles Banks Wilson

17. What happened to Western Indians in the Civil War?

18. Why did John Ross defect to the Union?

19. What Indian became a Confederate general?

20. Who was the last Confederate general to surrender?

21. What were “Reconstruction” treaties?

22. What requirements were mandated Oklahoma Historical Society
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.
Oklahoma Historical Society

23. What public grants were given to railroads?

24. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What role did geography play in the alignment of Indian Territory with the South in the Civil War?
What were the major reasons Indian Territory joined with the Confederacy?
How did the tribes settle into a society similar to that of the Old South?

25. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
How did the Seminoles differ in their attitude toward slavery from that of the Cherokees?
Tell about the slave rebellion in 1842.
How was the Cherokee leadership divided over the issue of taking sides during the Civil War?

26. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Why was the Confederacy interested in Indian Territory?
What actions did the Plains Indian Tribes take in taking sides during the Civil War?
How did Reconstruction affect Indian Territory?
Discuss the role of John Ross in the Civil War as it was conducted in Indian Territory.