Mr.Hood Indian Removal Act Quiz Question

Which present-day state were most of the Native Americans relocated to during the 1830s?

• Arizona
• Oklahoma
• Texas
• New Mexico

Native American tribe in NW Georgia; were forcefully removed during the Trail of Tears

• Apache
• Navajo
• Cherokee
• Sioux

Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of Cherokee in Worcester vs. Georgia

• John Marshall
• George Washington
• Abraham Lincoln
• Thomas Jefferson

President of the United States; signed the Indian Removal Act; supported westward expansion

• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson
• Andrew Jackson
• Abraham Lincoln

The Supreme Court ruled that ___ was not able to take the Cherokee land because the Cherokee were a sovereign nation.

• Ohio

• Tennessee

• Florida

• Georgia

Andrew Jackson decided to not enforce the Supreme Court decision. and used the Indian ___ Act of 1830 to force Native Americans west.

• Expulsion
• Banishment
• Removal
• Eviction

Native Americans did not go West ___, but were forced.

• willingly
• freely
• spontaneously
• voluntarily

Which of the following was NOT a tribe living east of the Mississippi River.

• Comanche

• Choctaw
• Seminole
• Iroquois

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 removed:

• European settlers from the western frontier to the eastern coast
• African American slaves from the southern plantations to the northern cities
• The Jewish from Poland

• Native American tribes from their ancestral lands in the southeastern United States to areas west of the Mississippi River

The Cherokee people were forced _______ of the Mississippi River

• west
• east
• south
• north