Trail of Tears

The Indian Territory, to which the Cherokee were removed during the Trail of Tears, is the modern-day state of...

• California
• Oklahoma
• Missouri
• New Mexico

Name of the Congressional legislation (law passes by Congress) that allowed Georgia to forcibly remove the Creek and Cherokee from the state?

• Proclamation of 1763

• Cherokee Act

• Indian Removal Act

• Native American Act

Who was the Cherokee chief who worked through the court systems and brought petitions before the U.S. Congress protesting the Indian Removal Act and the mistreatment of the Cherokee by the state of Georgia?

• John Ross

• John Marshall

• Samuel Worcester

• Sequoyah

U.S. President who signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 ordering ALL Native Americans to be relocated west of the Mississippi River.

• George Washington
• Thomas Jeffersom
• James Madison
• Andrew Jackson

The location in Georgia where the Cherokee national capital of New Echota was established in 1825?

• Louisville
• Dahlonega
• Atlanta
• New Echota

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

Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who ruled that Georgia laws did not apply in the Cherokee Nation and that the state must stop violating the rights of the Cherokee.

• John Marshall
• John Ross
• Andrew Jackson
• Samuel Worcester

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

• true
• false

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

• Cherokee
• Iroquois
• Souix
• Red Hawks

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

• Kentucky
• Tennessee
• Georgia
• Kansas