The+Road+to+War

= = = = = = = = = = =__Between 1790 and 1810 more than 900,000 white settlers moved west of the Appalachians__= =__They cleared land and built farms on Indian lands__= =__They ignored treaties signed by the United States government and Native American tribes__= =__Fighting often broke out between the two groups__= =__In Ohio, Little Turtle of the Miamis and Blue Jacket of the Shawnees organized resistance in 1791__= =__They drove Americans from the area using guns they purchased from the British__= =__President Washington sent General Anthony Wayne into Ohio to stop the violence__= =__Native Americans gathered at Fallen Timbers__= =__Wayne's troops defeated the Native Americans at Fallen Timbers__= =__In 1795, leaders of Native American groups signed the Treaty of Greenville giving up land that would later become part of Ohio__= =__They received $20,000 and the promise of more money if they kept the peace__= =__American feeling toward Britain was growing more bitter__= =__The loudest calls for war came from westerners__= =__They claimed the British were encouraging Indian resistance to frontier settlements__= =__White settlers were not content with the land the Native Americans gave up in the Treaty of Greenville__= =__They continued to move west onto Native American lands__= =__Native Americans grew angry with the white settlers once again__= =__Two Shawnee leaders vowed to stop the white settlers from taking their lands__= =__They were Tecumseh and his brother Prophet__=



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=Tecumseh believed that the reason Native Americans continued to lose their land was because they were separated into many different tribes= =He believed that __the only way to stop the white man for Native American tribes to unite__= =Tecumseh and the Prophet believed that __white customs corrupted the Indian ways__= =They said that __too many Indians depended on white trade goods, such as muskets, cloth, cooking pots, and whiskey__= =They believed that a __return to the old ways would help Indians gain the power to resist the white invaders__= =In 1808, the __Prophet built a village__ for his followers __along Tippecanoe Creek__ in the Indiana Territory= =__Indians from lands as far away__ as Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota __traveled to Prophetstown to hear his message__= =__Tecumseh worked to organize a league or confederation of Native American tribes__= =__White settlers were concerned about the success of Tecumseh's efforts to unite Native Americans__= =In 1811, __William Henry Harrison marched 1,000 soldiers against Prophetstown__= =The Prophet was in charge because Tecumseh was away trying to organize support for the confederation= =__The Prophet led a surprise attack on Harrison's troops__= =__Harrison's troops defeated the Prophet's forces and destroyed Prophetstown__= =__It was a severe setback for Tecumseh's movement__=

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