Native American and the Trail of Tears

Native Americans and the Trail of Tears

Indian Removal Act

•In 1830, Andrew
Jackson signed the
Indian Removal Act
into law.

•The act allowed the US
to pay Native
Americans to move
west.

Indian Territory

•Congress created
Indian Territory, or
Oklahoma, in 1834.

•It was created for all
the Native Americans
in the Southeast to
move to.

Multiple Choice

Which act offered to pay Native Americans for their land if they moved west?

• Indian Removal Act

• Jackson's Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Multiple Choice

Which president signed the Indian Removal Act into law?

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

• Andrew Jackson

• Abraham Lincoln

The Cherokee Nation

•Most Native Americans
in the Southeast
agreed to move and
get paid.

•The Cherokee did not
and resisted by suing
the state of Georgia.

Multiple Choice

Not many Native Americans agreed to move and get paid.

• True

• False

•They won their Supreme
Court case, but it wasn’t
enforced.

•In 1835, the Cherokee
signed a treaty giving up
their land.

•They were then forced out
of Georgia and marched
west to Oklahoma.

•Bad weather along the
route resulted in
thousands of
Cherokees dying.

•The Cherokee people
referred to this event
as the Trail of Tears.

​Trail of Tears

Multiple Choice

The Cherokee won their Supreme Court case but it was not enforced.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What year did the Cherokee sign a treaty to give up their land?

• 1850

• 1835

• 1805

• 1870

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