Westward Expansion (Native Americans)

Settlers wanted the Native Americans to relocate so that the settlers could take the land for themselves.

• True
• False

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

• Cherokee
• Iroquois
• Souix
• Red Hawks

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced Indians to move

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

The land west of the ______________ was thought to be worthless.

• Mississippi River
• Appalachian Mountains
• Central Plains
• Rocky Mountains

Some Native Americans moved peacefully to the new land.

• True
• False

Trail of Tears

• In 1830, authorizing the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River to lands in the West.
  
• To manage Indian removal to western lands, Congress approved the creation of a new government agency
• Court ruled that the Cherokee nation was a distinct community in which the laws of Georgia had no force
• The Cherokee were forced to march 800 miles to the Indian Territory

What does the Indian Removal Act do?

• Pushes all Native Americans into Florida
• Allows Georgia to use Native Americans as slaves
• Enacts the policy of assimilation
• Moves Native Americans west beyond the Mississippi River

This man was president from 1829-1837

• Andrew Jackson
• Abraham Lincoln

Many Native Americans died on the way

• True
• False

What was the trail called that the Native Americans were forced to walk?

• trail of tears

• the death walk

• The march of tears

• the trail of fear