The Trail of Tears occurred during these two years.
What is 1838-1839?
100
The Cherokee originally lived in this state.
What is Georgia?
100
He was president when the Indian Removal Act was passed.
Who was Andrew Jackson?
100
They decide federal court cases.
What is the Supreme Court?
200
The Cherokee primarily moved to this state.
What is Oklahoma?
200
This Cherokee Chief attempted to stop the removal of the Cherokee by lobbying in Washington DC.
Who was Chief John Ross?
200
The Indian Removal Act was passed in this year.
What is 1830?
200
In this case, the Supreme Court decided the Cherokee were not a foreign nation under the Constitution.
What is Cherokee nation v. Georgia (1831)?
300
Amount of soldiers who led Indians in trail of tears (within 2,000)
What is 7,000?
300
Amount of Cherokee that died on trail of tears (within 2,000)
What is 4,000 men, women, and children?
300
The amount of votes the senate voted for the removal act (within 2) (47 senators in total)
What is 28 to 19 to pass the Indian Removal Act?
300
The treaty that said that all the Cherokee would move out of their land and go west.
What is the Treaty of New Echota?
400
General who led the army through the Trail of Tears.
Who is General Winfield Scott?
400
The Cherokee surrendered this much of their original land to the government by the end of the Revolutionary War (1783).
a) less than a quarter
b) a third
c) half
d) more than half
What is more than half? (d)
400
Amount of Native Americans in total removed (within 1,000)
What is 16,000?
400
In this case, the Supreme Court decided that the Cherokee did not have to follow state law, but they had to follow federal law.
What is Worcester v. Georgia (1832)?
500
His wife died of pneumonia because she gave her only blanket to a sick child.
Who was Chief John Ross?
500
This man invented an alphabet for the Cherokee language.
Who was Sequoyah?
500
This many of Andrew Jackson's annual messages to Congress (out of 8) discussed Indian Removal without specifically mentioning the Indian Removal Act by name.
What is 7?
500
Second Greatest Indian Removal Act. Forced Native Americans to live on reservations.