History of the United States I / Unit 10 USH1 1398 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Black Hawk's War
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The idea
The Sauk chief Black Hawk led Fox and Sauk people back across the Mississippi in eighteen thirty-two to reclaim ancestral Illinois land.
In practice
White settlers raising militias, joined by federal troops.
Where people slip
The war lasted only a matter of weeks, which indicates the disparity in force rather than any lack of resolve.
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