History of the United States I / Unit 15 USH1 2116 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Five Civilized Tribes
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The idea
The Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole and Cherokee supported slavery, and many of their members were slaveholders who had been forced from Georgia under Jackson.
In practice
Delegates sent from these nations to the Confederate Congress.
Where people slip
The anchor calls this unprecedented common cause with White slaveholders. Unit 10 covers the removals, and the alignment here is the harder half of that story.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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