Seminole Wars

Seminole Wars

Seminole Wars
Reading Level

	edHelper's suggested reading level:	high interest, readability grades 5 to 6
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	4.78

Vocabulary

	challenging words:		cease-fire, military, ammunition, camps, traveled, battle, amount, chief, during, whatever, often, between, state, fight, against, control
	content words:		Native Americans, Seminole War, In November, Fowl Town, Andrew Jackson, By April, Second Seminole War, General Floyd, Okefenokee Swamp, United States

Print Seminole Wars

Print Seminole Wars (font options, pick words for additional puzzles, and more)

Quickly Print - PDF format

	Quickly Print: PDF (2 columns per page)
	Quickly Print: PDF (full page)

Quickly Print - HTML format

Quickly Print: HTML

Proofreading Activity

Print a proofreading activity

Feedback on Seminole Wars

Leave your feedback on Seminole Wars (use this link if you found an error in the story)

Seminole Wars
By Cathy Pearl

¹     More and more white settlers were moving to the West. They were moving on lands where Native Americans already lived. The settlers didn't care. They wanted the land. They would do whatever they could to take the land away from the Native Americans.

²     Some Native Americans left their lands without a fight. They did not want a war with the white settlers. Nations like the Seminoles did not leave. They fought to keep what was theirs.

³     The first Seminole War started in 1817. In November, a group of soldiers went to Fowl Town. This was a Seminole village. The soldiers wanted a chief there to give himself up to the Americans. They thought the chief had killed some families in Georgia.

⁴     The chief would not surrender. The soldiers attacked the town. They drove the Native Americans into a swamp. The soldiers also killed about twenty men. Then they burned Fowl Town.

⁵     The war had started. Most of the war was fought with hit-and-run attacks. The Seminoles would run into a town or plantation. They would attack it and then run away again. Andrew Jackson took control of the American troops in 1818. By April, Jackson was marching into east Florida and destroying many Seminole towns. The first war was over.

Paragraphs 6 to 15:
For the complete story with questions: click here for printable

Copyright © 2009 edHelper