SS8H4: Trail of Tears

Missionary who was arrested for refusing to sign an Oath of Allegiance to the Georgia governor while living on Cherokee land. His court case ended up going all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

• John Ross

• Elias Boudinot

• Samuel Worcester

• John Marshall

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

These Indians had their own government with a Constitution and elected leaders.

• Souix
• Chickasaw
• Cherokee
• Red Hawks

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

• Souix
• Choctaw
• Iroquois
• Seminole

The Cherokee took the state of ____________ to the Supreme Court.

• Alabama
• Georgia
• Florida
• Lousiana

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced Indians to move

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

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

• North
• South
• East
• West

About __________________ Cherokee died on the Trail of Tears.

• 400
• 1500
• 4000
• 15000