Who was elected the 7th US president in 1828?
Andrew Jackson
Today the combined Cherokee nations are located in which state?
Oklahoma
In the mission schools. Cherokee children were taught important American society skills. Give 4 examples.
Boys: reading, writing,, arithmetic, agriculture, carpentry Girls: cooking, spinning, weaving, sewing
In 1832, the governor of Georgia passed a law that allowed what?
Cherokee land to be raffled off to whites
The Cherokee solved political problems by
holding council meetings.
Why did the white settlers want the Cherokee land in Georgia?
gold had been discovered there
Despite the Supreme Court ruling that Cherokee tribes could govern themselves, the US Congress passed the
Indian Removal Act
What was approved in the year 1787?
The US Constitution
Cherokee were rounded up and transported 800 miles across the country to Oklahoma. Why is this known as the "Trail of Tears"?
It was a long journey with inadequate supplies and many Cherokee died along the way.
What name did the Cherokee give their newspaper?
The Phoenix
In what year did the Native Americans first make contact with European explorers and settlers?
1500
How did the Cherokee begin to change? List three examples.
They became more like the white people - clothing, government, writing, culture, roles of men and women...etc.
What did Andrew Jackson offer the Cherokee - from the American government?
a new home and money to move to a new settlement
The Cherokee wanted to save their nation and territory. What crime was punishable by death
selling land to the whites
Which powerful signer said," I am one of the native sons of these lands....make a treaty of cession"?
Major Ridge
What was Samuel Worcester argument about the Cherokee territory?
it was independent from Georgia and its laws
What did the US government offer in a new treaty with the Cherokee in 1835?
5 million dollars in return for their removal
Most of the Cherokee people lived in the state of
Georgia