During the American Civil War, after the Battle of Honey Springs in July 1863 when the Indian Nations were attacked and all the areas felt unsafe with an apparent defeat of the Confederates. The Cherokees and Creeks civilian took their families, and belongings including slaves, as refugees to the Red River Valley of Texas (southern Choctaw and Chickasaw).
2. The flight or mass scale of refugees' movement was known as THE STAMPEDE.
Rene Decartes was a French philosopher born in 1596 a time when many long held benefits where changing. His new way of thinking led him to decide to doubt everything until he could prove it. His goal was to achieve certainity through methodical and logical questioning.