Native Americans and Westward Expansion

What was the Indian Removal Act?

• A law that Andrew Jackson passed that authorized the president to grant Native American tribes unsettled western prairie land in exchange for land in the east.

• A law that Andrew Jackson passed that allowed the government to forcibly remove Native American tribes from their homes.

• A law that Andrew Jackson passed that threw Native American tribes out of the country.

Was the relocation of the Native Americans in the Indian Removal Act voluntary?

• Yes

• No

• It was supposed to be, but all of the pressure was there to make the removal inevitable, whether the Native Americans wanted the land or not.

True or False: the five major tribes affected by the Indian Removal Act were the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and the Sioux.

• True

• False

True or False: There were three notable wars between the Native American and the colonists. These wars were the Florida Indians and the Spanish war, the Iroquois and the French war, and the French and Indian Seven Years War.

• True

• False

What were some of the types of diseases European settlers brought to Native Americans?

• influenza, typhus fever, and small pox

• cholera and bubonic plague

• tapeworms, arthritis and cancer

• plague, chicken pox, measles and scarlet fever

True or False: By the end of the 19th century, most Native Americans tribes had been sequestered into Indian Reservations.

• True

• False

True or False: Even though children were forced into boarding schools in the Indian Reservations, they didn't forget their true cultural heritage.

• True

• False

What was the Trail of Tears?

• Was a roughly 2,000 mile route from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon which was used by hundreds of thousands of American pioneers in the mid-1800s to emigrate west.

• It was part of Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Policy, which forced the Cherokee nation to give up its land east of the Mississippi River and migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma.

• It was a trail that Native Americans took to escape from the Indian Reservations.

When did the Native Americans actively walk the Trail of Tears during the Indian Removal Act?

• 1837-1838

• 1839-1840

• 1836-1837

• 1838-1839

Why was the trail called the Trail of Tears?

• The trail was called The Trail of Tears because of how long it was. Most people died from lack of food and water.

• The trail was called The Trail of Tears because of the sadness the Cherokees felt from having to leave their homeland behind.

• The trail was called The Trail of Tears because of its devastating effects on the Native Americans. For example, 4000 out of 15000 Cherokees died from hunger and disease.