The U.S. government’s policy of forced removal led some [[Native Americans|Indians]] to actively resist. In 1832, the [[Fox]] and the [[Sauk]], led by Sauk chief Makataimeshekiakiah ([[Black Hawk]]), moved back across the [[HISTORY Teaching Content/US 1/Topic Index/Mississippi River]] to reclaim their ancestral homeland in northern Illinois. Black Hawk’s War began when white settlers panicked at the return of the native peoples, and militias and federal troops quickly mobilized. At the [[Battle of Bad Axe]] U.S. troops killed over two hundred men, women, and children while about seventy white settlers and soldiers were killed. The war, which lasted only about seven weeks, illustrates how much whites on the frontier hated and feared Indians during the Age of Jackson. Over the course of the conflict, about ten times more Indians were killed than whites. In the end, natives signed the 1833 [[Treaty of Chicago]] which opened even more of their ancestral lands to white settlement. ---- Next: [[11.8 - Tocqueville]] Back: [[11.6 - 1832 Election]]