(11) Expanding Into Native American Lands

What called for the government to negotiate treaties that would require Native Americans to relocate west of the Mississippi?

• spoils system
• Trail of Tears
• Indian Removal Act
• Whig Party

What is it called when a non-white culture is absorbed into white culture?

• spoils system
• secession
• inflation
• assimilate

While Andrew Jackson was president, many Native Americans were forced off their land by a law called the Indian Removal Act of 1830. When the Indians moved, it was called the

• Trail of Heartbreak
• Trail of Tears
• Road to Glory
• March to Freedom

1830 law that required the relocation of Cherokees to western territories

• Trail of Tears
• Indian Resettlement Law
• Worcester v. Georgia
• Indian Removal Act

Which is the most accurate description of the Indian Removal Act of 1830?

• High rates of the Tariff of 1828 were removed.
• The Embargo of 1807 was finally lifted.
• Native Americans were to be moved west of the Mississippi River.
• Fugitive slaves living in the North were to be shipped back to their owners in the South.

Which present-day state were most of the Native Americans relocated to during the 1830s?

• Georgia
• North Carolina
• Oklahoma
• Mississippi

These identified Tribes were known as:

• The Dakota Oyate
• The Iroquois Nation
• The Five Eastern Tribes
• The Five Civilized Tribes

President of the United States; signed the Indian Removal Act; supported westward expansion

• John Ross
• Abraham Baldwin
• Andrew Jackson 
• Abraham Lincoln

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 removed:

• the Cherokee
• the Creek
• All Natives East of the Mississippi
• All Natives West of the Mississippi

Why did the white settlers and the American Indians begin having conflicts?

• White settlers felt they had the right to settle on American Indian land

• American Indians built fences to keep the settlers' cattle out

• White settlers kidnapped American Indian children

• Gold was discovered on American Indian land