Trail of Tears and Native American Experience
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Trail of Tears and Native American ExperienceQuestions
- What was the importance of the court case Worcester v. Georgia?
- What was the Trail of Tears?
- Why were the Cherokee called a "civilized” tribe?
- Who was the Shawnee chief who built a confederacy among Native American nations?
- Why were Native Americans forced to abandon their Iand and move west?
- What kind of connections can you make between the Louisiana Purchase and Indian Removal to lands west of the Mississippi River?
- What were the conditions of the Indian Removal Act?
- What happened as a result of the Treaty of Greenville?
- Which chief led the Lakota in fighting white traders and soldiers in the Great Plains?
- Which animal provided food, shelter, and clothing for the American Indians on the Great Plains?
- What did American Indians in the West often traded in exchange for manufactured goods?
- Why did Jackson forcibly relocate Native Americans? What other action might he have taken to handle the conflict between the southern states and Native Americans?
- How did the buffalo meet the needs of the Plains Indians in the 1800s?
- What did the Crow Arapaho, and Sioux all have in common?
- What were Native American groups most threatened by?
- Which political action did President Jackson make that led to what became known as the Trail of Tears?
- Why did the U.S. government remove Native Americans from the Southeast in the 1830s?
- What was the intent of Indian schools?
- Who was in favor of the Indian Removal Act?
- What did President Andrew Jackson do to promote his policy of Indian removal?
- Who was president of the U.S. after Andrew Jackson?
- What was the result of breaking up native tribes?
- Describe the Indian Removal Act. Who put the plan into action?
- What did the State of Georgia try to do to the Cherokee tribe?
- Why was Andrew Jackson called "The People's President"?
- Where were the Native Americans relocated to?
- In Worster v. Georgia, whose side did the Supreme Court take, Jackson or the Cherokee?
- Why did the white settlers want the Cherokee's land?
- What sparked the Sand Creek Massacre?
- How was the election of Andrew Jackson viewed in 1828?
- How did Andre Jackson abuse his Presidential power?
- What are two of the states with extensive Native American reservations?
- Why is the Battle of Little Bighorn also called Custer's Last Stand?
- Why did the Iroquois form a confederacy?
- Who invaded the Cherokee nation and forced the Cherokee to travel from Georgia to Oklahoma in 1838?
- How did the Homestead Act created conflicts between settlers and native americans?