USA HISTORY

MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800

BATTLE OF FALLEN TIMBERS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who won the Battle of Fallen Timbers?
A
Blue Jacket and his warriors
B
Gen. Wayne and his American army
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Wayne’s troops defeated the Native Americans at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, which led to the Wayne’s Treaty of Greenville in 1795. This opened the Northwest Territory to white settlement.

Detailed explanation-2: -At the Battle of Fallen Timbers in August 1794, near present day Toledo, Ohio, Wayne and his combined force of regulars and mounted Kentucky militia, routed the Indians and largely eliminated the Indian threat in the Northwest Territory.

Detailed explanation-3: -The U.S. victory ended major hostilities in the region. The following Treaty of Greenville and Jay Treaty forced Native American displacement from most of modern-day Ohio, opening it to White American settlement, along with withdrawal of the British presence from the southern Great Lakes region of the United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -Their defeat at Fallen Timbers led to leaders of many tribes negotiating and signing the Treaty of Greenville in 1795, through which they relinquished much of their land to the federal government and were forced to relocate to northwestern Ohio.

Detailed explanation-5: -He married Mary Penrose in 1766, and they had two children. Their daughter, Margretta, was born in 1770, and their son, Isaac Wayne, was born in 1772.

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