The group constitued the largest tribal group in what today the southeastern United States
What is the Cherokee?
100
He was a missionary - he and his wife taught the Cherokee to read and write. He was eventually expelled when he refused to cooperate when the Native Americans were being disarmed by General Wool.
Who is Evan Jones?
100
Legally catalyzed the movement of Native American peoples from the East to West of the Mississippi.
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
100
The region of the United States to which the Native Americans were relocated to.
What is West of the Mississippi?
100
The group did the Native Americans sometimes enslaved.
Who are the Africans?
200
100,000
What is the number of people removed from their eastern homeland?
200
Was appointed as superintendent of the Cherokee removal
Who is Chief Ross?
200
The Treaty Party
What is the group that was viewed as ‘traitors’ of Chief Ross?
200
Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina
What are the states where the most of the remaining Cherokee currently live?
200
The goals of these people were:
1. Convert the Heathens
2. THEN deal with the sins of slavery
What are missionaries?
300
5 major groups of Native Americans that were forced to move.
What were the Cherokee, Seminoles, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw?
300
The Cherokees ally themselves with them during the American Revolution
Who are the English?
300
The Supreme Court's ruling in this case was that the state’s [Georgia's]actions were unconstitutional since the jurisdiction of the federal government over the Cherokees was exclusive
What is Samuel A. Worcester v The State of Georgia?
300
Old Agency on the Hiwassee River, Ross’s Landing, and Gunter’s Landing
What are the points where the Cherokee were rounded up for relocation?
300
This group of people viewed Africans “simply as other human beings”, as “...the concept of race did not exist among Indians” - Theda Purdue.
Who are the Cherokee?
400
The death toll of the Trail of Tears
What is 4,000-5,000 or 1/2 of the entire cherokee population?
400
This person's goal was “to civilize the Indians..to absorb them into American Society”
Who is George Washington?
400
The Cherokee Nation was actually a ‘domestic dependent nation’ or a ward of the federal government, Marshall determined that Cherokees could not file suit in the Supreme Court as a foreign nation.
What is the Supreme Court's Ruling of The Cherokee Nation v. The State of Georgia?
400
3 areas of major Afro-Indian communities.
What is Southeastern Virginia, low countries of the Carolinas, Northeastern Georgia?
400
These groups of Native Americans owned African slaves, but gave the slaves many more freedoms than White slave owners.
What are the Mvskoke and Seminoles?
500
22,000
What is the number of Cherokee currently living in the United States?
500
This person believed that American rights were more powerful and surpassed Native American rights and approved of Native American removal from the state of Georgia
Who is Senator John Forsyth?
500
Many Native Americans tried to avoid removal by either hiding or become citizens under this
What is Treaty of New Echota?
500
In what part of the United States were Native Americans largely enslaved?