JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
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Question
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These groups had never gone to war against whites.
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These groups had learned and adopted many white ways.
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These groups had won the right to elect representatives to Congress.
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These groups had agreed to leave their homelands peacefully.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The word civilized was applied to the five tribes because, broadly speaking, they had developed extensive economic ties with whites or had assimilated into American settler culture. Some members of these southeastern tribes had adopted European clothing, spoke English, practiced Christianity, and even owned slaves.
Detailed explanation-2: -The so-called Five Civilized Tribes were the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole. Europeans called them that because they had adapted somewhat to living within “civilized” borders.
Detailed explanation-3: -The term “Five Civilized Tribes” came into use during the mid-nineteenth century to refer to the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole nations.
Detailed explanation-4: -The term Five Civilized Tribes was applied by European Americans in the colonial and early federal period in the history of the United States to the five major Native American nations in the Southeast-the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminoles.