Paragraf Test-2 Soru=43

It is clear from the passage that when Wiley Thompson met the Indian chiefs to discuss moving to Indian Territory, ......... .

The leader of the Seminole Indians in their second war against the United States was Osceola. He was
born about 1804 along the Tallapoosa River in Georgia. When he was 4, his family moved to Florida.
As a boy he may have fought against Andrew Jackson in the First Seminole War. In 1832 some
Seminole chiefs signed a treaty that called for them to move to Indian Territory in present-day
Oklahoma. Osceola and other young Seminoles opposed the move. In 1835 the Indian agent Wiley
Thompson called a council at Fort Gibson. Some of the chiefs agreed to move. Osceola rose and
plunged his dagger through the new treaty. He said, "This is the only treaty I will make with the
whites!" He was then imprisoned. Later he pretended to favour the move and was released. In
December the conflict began. Osceola knew that the Indians were no match for the white soldiers in
open battle, so he led the Seminoles deep into the Everglades. From there he led the Seminole braves
in fierce raids on the white soldiers and settlers. The American public criticised the conduct of the war,
and finally General T.S. Jesup was given 8,000 men to end it. Some of the Seminole chiefs had given
many braves as hostages for the move to Indian Territory. In June 1837 Osceola, with 200 warriors,
liberated them and other Indians held by the Army. In October Osceola came under a flag of truce to
confer with a subordinate of Jesup. Jesup ordered him seized. Osceola was imprisoned first at St.
Augustine and later in Fort. Moultrie in Charleston. He died on January 20, 1838, and was buried with
full military honours. The war dragged on until 1842, when most of the Seminole tribe surrendered
and were moved to West.