Indian Removal

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

• Georgia
• North Carolina
• Oklahoma
• Mississippi

What is the idea that American should spread across the North American continent known as?

• Patriotism
• Manifest Destiny
• Westward Expansion
• Treaty of New Echota

Starting with President ___, there were attempts to move Native Americans westward.

• Jefferson
• Madison
• Monroe
• Jackson

Andrew Jackson decided to not enforce the Supreme Court decision. and used the Indian ___ Act of 1830 to force Native Americans west.

• Land
• Outlaw
• Removal
• Escape

Approximately ___ Cherokees died along the Trail of Tears.

• 400
• 1,000
• 4,000
• 16,000

What was it called when the Cherokee were forced to leave their homeland by soldiers, and at least 4,000 died due to harsh weather?

• Jackson's Journey

• March to the Sea

• Trail of Tears

What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific?

• Monroe Doctrine

• Great Awakening

• Manifest Destiny

• Louisiana Purchase

More than anything else, what did most American settlers want from American Indians?

• for them to be religious

• for them to dress like Europeans / white Americans

• thair farming skills

• their land

When the US forced the Cherokee to march across America (the Trail of Tears),

• more than half of the US troops died in the process

• it strengthened America's relationship with the British

• nearly a quarter of the Cherokee population died

• it brought the Cherokee to newer, better lands

In 1830, President ____________________ pushed the Indian Removal Act through Congress

• John Quincy Adams

• Henry Clay

• Andrew Jackson

• James Madison