1. Fighting for the Northwest territories

4. The Battle of Fallen Timbers
Americans move westward following the Revolution into the Northwest Territories
Native Americans living there are hostile to this encroachment
The Native Americans are armed by the British to fight back

6. Questions 1).Who was arming the Native American tribes?
2). What was the cause of the Battle of Fallen Timbers?
3). Who was the American commander? The Miami leader?
4). What was the outcome?
5). What were the stipulations of the Treaty of Grenville?

8. The Battle of Tippecanoe

10. Cause
The British continued to distribute arm Native American tribes in the West
American settlers move west into a collision course with Native Americans

11. The Major Players
Tecumseh
The Prophet
William Henry Harrison

12. Tecumseh A Shawnee chief
Refused to recognize treaty that allowed “Whites” into Ohio
Hoped to unify all Native Americans against the settlers
Unified many tribes of the Northwestern Territories

13. The Prophet The Younger brother of Tecumseh Religious man and mystic
His followers believed he had powers
Forms the confederacy w/ Tecumseh

14. The Confederacy
Military alliance of NW territories tribes against white settlers
Members of many tribes moved to Tecumseh and the Prophet’s city, Prophetstown in present Day Indiana

15. William Henry Harrison
Governor of the territory of Indiana

16. The Battle of Tippecanoe
- Harrison and the United States win

17. Aftermath The Prophet is totally discredited
Tecumseh’s confederacy falls apart and Native Americans lose any chance of expelling the white settlers
Tecumseh flees to Canada and is later killed at the Battle of Thames during the War of 1812

18. Colonel Richard Johnson
Personally killed Tecumseh
Results in a long political career
Served as a member of the House and the Senate
Representing Kentucky
9th Vice President
Van Buren’s Presidency
Best Campaign Slogan Ever…..
“Rumpsy Dumpsy, Rumpsy Dumpsy, Vote the man who shot Tecumseh”
Awesome

19. The Battle Field Today
The battle field is state monument located in Indiana

20. The Black Hawk War (1832)

21. Cause
In the Old Northwest, the Sauk and Fox had maintained a homeland in the area along the Rock River, close to where it empties into the Mississippi (the vicinity of modern Rock Island, Illinois).
The US Government wanted all the Sauk and Fox to relocate but allowed them to stay until more whites arrived
Unfair 1804 treaty

22. Cause The Sauk never thought that day would come
1820, the US government called in the treaty
The Sauk resist

23. Major Player Chief Black Hawk Long been an enemy of the US
Fought w/ British in War of 1812
Refused to leave the territory

25. The Spark
1831 – Blackhawk and his followers moved into Iowa and crossed the Mississippi into Illinois to reclaim land
Militia in Michigan Territory force Blackhawk back
Winter of 1832 – incredibly harsh and Sauk Starve
Blackhawk brings Sauk back into Illinois (400 warriors)

26. Bad Ax Massacre
Early August On August 1, Black Hawk, under a white flag, attempted to surrender to forces aboard the steamboat Warrior, but the vessel's suspicious captain opened fire, killing and wounding a number of Black Hawk's followers.
That evening, Black Hawk decided to continue the northward retreat, but the bulk of the native force chose to remain and make a stand. On the 2nd, the Sauk and Fox were decisively defeated on the banks of the Bad Axe. Over an eight-hour period, soldiers slaughtered fleeing Indians indiscriminately.

27. End of Blackhawk
Black Hawk took refuge with the Winnebago, but was later handed over to U.S. forces and temporarily imprisoned in St. Louis. He lived out his life on tribal lands in Iowa and died in 1838.

28. Presidents in the Sauk War