Trail of Tears- Consequence of Westward Expansion

Which tribe resided in over 40,000 square miles of the Appalachian mountains?

• The Seminoles

• The Cherokee

• The Aztecs

• The Ngbaka

The Cherokee's trusted the treaty signed by the US Government. They set up a capitol in Georgia that was called _____

• New Echota

• New Okeechobee

• Cherokee

• Suwanee

This was done under an act called _______

• The Native Removal Act

• The Moving Act

• The Indian Removal Act

• The Oregon Trail

Why was this forced march called the Trail of Tears?

• 15,000 Cherokee members died.

• Because they didn't want to go

• Because the road they took was called Tears Trail