Ch.7 Ls. 4

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

• John Quincy Adams

• Henry Clay

• Andrew Jackson

• James Madison

The Indian Removal Act led to the event known in History as....

• The Trail of Tears

• The trail of Death

• The Crying Path

• The Journey of Loss

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

• True
• False

President Jackson ignored Chief Justice John Marshall's decision about the Cherokee.

• True
• False

The Trail of Tears went from Georgia and Florida to Indian Territory which is____.

• Mississippi

• Mexico

• Present-day Oklahoma

• Present-day Texas

Which people provided a safe haven for African Americans who escaped from slavery?

• the Chickasaw in Alabama
• the Seminole in Florida
• the Cherokee in Georgia
• the Creek in Mississippi

President Jackson sent soldiers (US army) to remove the ____ to the Indian Territory.

• Cherokee

• Iroquois

• Souix

• Red Hawks

Indian Removal Act

• In 1830, authorizing the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River to lands in the West.
  
• The Cherokee were forced to march 800 miles to the Indian Territory
• Court ruled that the Cherokee nation was a distinct community in which the laws of Georgia had no force
• U.S. land in what is now Oklahoma - and planned to move Native Americans there.

Chief Justice John Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Cherokee, however, Pres. Jackson refused to enforce the Court’s ruling.

• true
• false

Thousands of Cherokee did died of exposure, starvation, disease, & heartbreak on the Trail of Tears journey to the Indian Territory?

• true
• false