What was the main purpose of the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
10.4 - Indian Removal

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NATHAN SHIELDS
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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To establish reservations in the southeastern United States
To grant Native Americans citizenship
To relocate Native American tribes to lands west of the Mississippi River
To integrate Native Americans into American society
2.
DROPDOWN QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
George Catlin seized upon the public fascination with the supposedly exotic and (a) Native American, seeing an opportunity to make money by painting them in a way that conformed to popular (b) stereotypes.
Answer explanation
Catlin routinely painted Native Americans in a supposedly aboriginal state. In Attacking the Grizzly Bear (1844), the hunters do not have rifles and instead rely on spears.
Such a portrayal stretches credibility as Native peoples had long been exposed to and adopted European weapons.
Indeed, the painting’s depiction of Native people riding horses, which were introduced by the Spanish, makes clear that, as much as Catlin and White viewers wanted to believe in the primitive and savage Native, the reality was otherwise.
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
This became the historical term for the forced relocation and resultant deaths through conflict, illness, and starvation of indigenous peoples due to the removal treaties under the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
The Trail of Tears
The Mississippi Genocide
The Indian Removal Treaty
The Old Oklahoma Trail
Answer explanation
This forced migration, known as the Trail of Tears, caused the deaths of as many as four thousand Cherokee.
The Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole peoples were also compelled to go. The removal of the Five Civilized Tribes provides an example of the power of majority opinion in a democracy.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was the outcome of the Supreme Court case Worcester v. Georgia in 1832?
The Cherokee were forced to relocate
The Cherokee were recognized as a sovereign nation
The Cherokee were granted U.S. citizenship
The Cherokee were declared a foreign nation
Answer explanation
By living among the Cherokee, Samuel Worcester had violated a Georgia law forbidding White people, unless they were agents of the federal government, to live in Native American territory.
Worcester was sentenced to four years of hard labor. When the case of Worcester v. Georgia came before the Supreme Court in 1832, Chief Justice John Marshall ruled in favor of Worcester, finding that the Cherokee constituted “distinct political communities” with sovereign rights to their own territory.
Therefore, Georgia's laws had no power on Cherokee territory.
5.
DRAG AND DROP QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
These groups were known as the Five (a) Tribes, because they had largely adopted (b) culture, speaking English and practicing (c) . Some held enslaved people like their white counterparts.
Ironically, while white people insisted that Native peoples could never be good citizens because of their savage ways, the (d) had arguably gone farther than any other indigenous group in adopting white culture.
Answer explanation
This image depicts the front page of the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper from May 21, 1828. The paper was published in both English and the Cherokee language.
Jackson’s anti-Native stance struck a chord with a majority of white citizens, many of whom shared a hatred of non-white people that spurred Congress to pass the 1830 Indian Removal Act. The act called for the removal of the Five Civilized Tribes from their home in the southeastern United States to land in the West, in present-day Oklahoma.
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was a significant factor that increased the desire to remove the Cherokee from Georgia?
The Cherokee's involvement in the fur trade
The Cherokee's alliance with the British
The Cherokee's refusal to adopt Christianity
Discovery of gold on Cherokee land
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The Supreme Court did have the power to enforce its ruling granting the Cherokee tribe sovereignty in Worcester v. Georgia (1832). However, Chief Justice John Marshall's majority emphasized removal by treaty in order to protect the tribes from further conflict with U.S. settlers.
True
False
Answer explanation
The Supreme Court did not have the power to enforce its ruling in Worcester v. Georgia, however, and it became clear that the Cherokee would be compelled to move.
Chief John Ross sought to negotiate a treaty where the Cherokee would remain on their lands, but a splinter group opposed to Ross got to Washington D.C. first, and a legal, but corrupt, treaty was signed that applied to the entire Cherokee nation.
In order to enforce this Treaty of New Echota, President Jackson had to rely on the U.S. military. In a series of forced marches, some fifteen thousand Cherokee were finally relocated to Oklahoma.
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