USA HISTORY

JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850

THE TRAIL OF TEARS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Why was Chief Joseph attempting to lead his followers into Canada in 1877?
A
The Nez Perce had destroyed Custer’s 7th Cavalry forces.
B
He wanted to prevent being placed onto a reservation.
C
His people were fleeing the Sioux warriors.
D
He was waging war on the Canadian army.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is B) He wanted to prevent being placed onto a reservation. Chief Joseph attempted to lead his followers into Canada in 1877 because he wanted to prevent being placed onto a reservation. Chief Joseph(1840-1904), was a Nez Perce Indian warrior from the Oregon Territory.

Detailed explanation-2: -While he was preparing for the removal, however, he learned that a trio of young men had massacred a band of white settlers and prospectors; fearing retaliation by the U.S. army, he decided instead to lead his small body of followers (some 200 to 300 warriors and their families) on a long trek to Canada.

Detailed explanation-3: -On October 5, 1877, Chief Joseph, exhausted and disheartened, surrendered in the Bears Paw Mountains of Montana, forty miles south of Canada. Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain was born in 1840 in the Wallowa Valley of what is now northeastern Oregon.

Detailed explanation-4: -Chief Joseph led his band of Nez Perce during the most tumultuous period in their history, when they were forcibly removed by the United States federal government from their ancestral lands in the Wallowa Valley of northeastern Oregon onto a significantly reduced reservation in the Idaho Territory.

Detailed explanation-5: -Chief Joseph (1840-1904) was a leader of the Wallowa band of the Nez Perce Tribe, who became famous in 1877 for leading his people on an epic flight across the Rocky Mountains. He was born in 1840 and he was called Joseph by Reverend Henry H.

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