Wordly Wise Lesson 1. Review Exercise

Bad feelings between Native Americans and Europeans developed soon after their first meeting. The actions of the Europeans did little to ___________________ this mistrust.

Smallpox struck the Cherokee nation in 1745. The _______________ spread rapidly, as the Native Americans had no natural protection against it.

Half the population of the Cherokee nation died as a result of the disease. The effect on those who survived was _________.

Smallpox was unknown in North America before the Europeans' arrival. There is no doubt that the settlers were the __________ of the disease.

The Cherokee people were helpless against the European settlers. It is ____________ that by 1828, the Native Americans had lost nine-tenths of their land.

Twenty tribal memebers signed the 1835 agreement. They had no right to act for the Cherokee Nation and must have known the agreement was a(n) ___________________.

The dispute over Cherokee land reached the highest court in the nation. It was the job of the Supreme Court to give a(n) ___________ ruling on the matter.

The Supreme Court expects to have the last word in legal matters. It must have _____________ the chief justice when his opinion was ignored.

It was the president's duty to obey the Supreme Court. What he thought about the chief justice's ruling is __________.

The president openly defied Chief Justice Marshall. He refused to ________________ the right of the Supreme Court to rule against the legality of the agreement.