RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE INDIAN WARS STRUGGLE BETWEEN NATIVE AMERICANS AND SETTLERS
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Question
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The British defeated and took Cherokee territory
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The French assisted the Cherokees to defeat the British
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The French defeated the Cherokees
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The colonists in the Backcountry lost their land
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Detailed explanation-1: -Cherokee wars and treaties, series of battles and agreements around the period of the U.S. War of Independence that effectively reduced Cherokee power and landholdings in Georgia, eastern Tennessee, and western North and South Carolina, freeing this territory for speculation and settlement by the white man.
Detailed explanation-2: -By July the Cherokees were defeated, and they negotiated a treaty, which was signed in Charleston on September 23, 1761. By these treaty terms, both Cherokees and colonists agreed to exchange captives.
Detailed explanation-3: -On September 19, 1776, troops from South Carolina defeated a band of Cherokee Indians in what is now Macon County.
Detailed explanation-4: -British forces under general James Grant destroyed a number of Cherokee towns, which were never reoccupied. Kituwa was abandoned, and its former residents migrated west; they took up residence at Mialoquo, called Great Island Town, on the Little Tennessee River among the Overhill Cherokee.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Cherokee had a long history of peaceful interactions with British settlers, beginning when the two groups became trading partners in the late seventeenth century. Their economic partnership eventually evolved into a military alliance, with the Cherokee aiding British forces in 1712 in battle against the Tuscarora.