Court Cases
What did Georgia do when they heard Worcester was innocent?
They still put him in jail with hard labor
What were the Five Civilized Tribes?
Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole
The treaty that forcefully removed the Natives Americans from their land?
The treaty of Echota
What was the long trail to Oklahoma called where the Indian relocation territory was?
Trail of Tears
What is it called when the Natives tried to become a part of the European culture?
Assimilation
Which court cased declared that states had no authority of the Native American Territories, but the federal government did?
Worcester V. Georgia
Which of the tribes were the first to sign over their land to the US?
The Choctaw or Chickasaw
What did the Indian Removal Act give the president the ability to do?
Transfer government-owned land west of the Mississippi to Native Americans relocating from the Southeast.
In what present day state were Native Americans relocated to?
Oklahoma
What was it called when the Cherokee formed their own government, constitution, and called themselves an independent nation?
Which court case did the US not even hear Natives because they claimed that they were not an independent nation and weren't a foreign nation like France or Great Britain.
Cherokee V. Georgia
What tribe went to court against Georgia but was not seen?
The Cherokee
What did the US proposed in 1830 that stated that Natives will be given compensation for their territory, but they had no choice in giving up the land?
The Indian Removal Act
About how many Native Americans died along the Trail of Tears of the 17,000?
1/4 or 4,000
John Ross
Which court case stated that Native American territory could not be purchased by US citizens for personal territory.
Johnson V. M'Intosh
What treaty was signed without the full consent of Natives knowledge, and signed away all their land for money?
The Treaty of Echota
What was Worcester doing in Indian Territory that got him arrested by Georgia?
He was on a mission trip
Before was decade did the US and their citizens see Native Americans as an independent people?
The 1830's
Who was the General that removed the Natives forcefully?
Gen. Winfield Scott