Trail Of Tears

Trail Of Tears #1

100

About how many miles were the Cherokees forced to march?

What is 1,200 miles

200

What treaty caused Andrew Jackson to move Cherokees under Indian Removal Act?

What is Treaty of New Echota.

300

Who believed the Native Americans should be forced out of the land

Andrew Jackson

400

1830 law authorizing force removal

Indian Removal Act

500

What were the reasons the Native Americans were forced to move westward?

gold (wealth),  fertile land, fear (Europeans feared them becoming more powerful)

Trail Of Tears #2

100

From which state to which present-day state were Cherokees forced to march?

What is From Georgia to Oklahoma

200

It stated that the Cherokee autonomy was protected by federal law

Worcester v Georgia

300

Native Americans being forced westward by gunpoint

Trail of Tears

400

What native tribe made up the largest % of refugees involved in the Trail of Tears?

What is Cherokee

500

Forced movement of people from their homes or land

Displacement

Trail Of Tears #3

100

What were some of the hardships on the trail?

No warm clothing (froze), starvation, disease, lack of shelter, dirty water

200

who was the president of the United States when the Trail of Tears happened? 

What is Andrew Jackson.

300

Belief in a God-given mission to expand across the continent

Manifest Destiny

400

Name one of the two ways Cherokees got From Georgia to Oklahoma.

Water / land

500

If you had been on the Trail as a Cherokee, how would you feel?  Give at least three adjectives.

angry, sad, frustrated, exhausted, anxious etc.