Trail of Tears

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

• Cherokee

• Iroquois

• Souix

• Red Hawks

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who ruled in favor of the Cherokee Nation was

• John Adams

• John Jay

• John Bon Jovi

• John Marshall

The Supreme Court ruled that the U.S. should protect the Cherokee and their lands in 

• Kentucky

• Tennessee

• Georgia

• Kansas

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

This man was president from 1829-1837.

• Thomas Jefferson

• Andrew Jackson

• George Washington

• Henry Clay

_________  in 1830 authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi river to lands in the west.

• Bureau of Indian Affairs

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Indian Removal Act

• None of the above

Which of the following was the Cherokee’s 800 mile march to the indian territory where ¼ of the Cherokee tribe died on the march to the land?

• Second Seminole War

• Trail of Tears

• Blackhawk

• Cherokee resistance

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

• North

• South

• East

• West

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