Trail of Tears/Andrew Jackson Quiz

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

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

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

• Cherokee
• Iroquois
• Souix
• Red Hawks

About __________________ Cherokee died on the Trail of Tears.

• 400
• 1500
• 4000
• 15000

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

Why was the trail nicknamed Trail of Tears?

• Because of how much people died.

• Because the American Indians teared up so much.

• Because of the devastation the American Indians felt having to leave their lands.

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced Indians to move

• to Florida
• to Oklahoma