Trail of Tears

President Jackson sent soldiers to remove the ____ to the Indian Territory.

• Cherokee
• Iroquois
• Souix
• Red Hawks

The Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. should protect the Cherokee and their lands in 

• Kentucky
• Tennessee
• Georgia
• Kansas

Gold was discovered in the lands that belonged to

• Cherokee
• Andrew Jackson
• Seminole
• Alexander Hamilton

This tribe lived mostly in Florida and were either killed or forced to leave their homes.

• Souix
• Choctaw
• Iroquois
• Seminole

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced Indians to move

• to Oklahoma
• to Florida
• to the Louisiana Purchase
• to Canada

This man was president from 1829-1837.

• Thomas Jefferson
• Andrew Jackson
• George Washington
• Henry Clay

_________  in 1830 authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi river to lands in the west.

• Bureau of Indian Affairs
• Worcester v. Georgia
• Indian Removal Act
• None of the above

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced Indians to move

• to Florida
• to Oklahoma

The United States government decided to move the Native Americans from their land to the

• West
• South

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Many Native Americans died on the way

• True
• False