USI.8c Effects of Westward Expansion on American Indians

The Indian Removal Act was passed because___.

• The Indians wanted to remove white settlers from their land

• Natives wished to sell their land to the US government at a high price

• Gold was found on Native American territory

The Indian Removal Act authorized the federal government to ___.

• negotiate treaties with eastern tribes to exchange their land for new land in the west

• move Natives from the west to new locations in the east

• divide Native land among tribes equally

What did the American Indian Removal Act force the Native tribes to do?

Select ALL that apply.

• surrender all gold found on Native land

• give up Native land east of the Mississippi River

• relocate to an area in present-day Oklahoma

• pay the US government for damages caused by raids

What did the Cherokee tribe do after the Indian Removal Act was passed?

• decided to stand their ground and wage war for the rights to their land

• took their case to the Supreme Court

• made plans to move further east

In the Cherokee Nation v. Georgia case__.

Select ALL that apply

• the Cherokee fought the government of Georgia to stay on their land

• the Supreme Court said Native Americans did not have the right to sue states

• the Seminoles sued the government to pay for the costs of moving West

• the Supreme Court agreed to give the Natives back all of the land claimed by America

After bringing two cases before the Supreme Court, the Cherokee were still forced to relocate to the West because ___.

• President Andrew Jackson failed to enforce the Supreme Court's decision to support the Natives' rights to their land

• the Court sided with the people of Georgia

• they saw the benefits of moving to Oklahoma

What did the Cherokee people call the 800+ mile march to the Oklahoma territory?

• The Trail of Sorrows

• The Long March to Oklahoma

• The Trail of Tears

• The Oklahoma Disaster

What effects of the Trail of Tears were devastating to the Cherokee people?

Select ALL that apply

• hunger

• disease

• exhaustion

• the death of over 4,000