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Trail of Tears
Trail of tears MS vocabulary
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A law that was passed in 1830 which authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River to lands in the West | Indian Removal Act |
Congress established this land in what is now Oklahoma where Native Americans were moved | Indian Territory |
A government agency that was created to manage Indian removal to western lands | Bureau of Indian Affairs |
This person used 86 characters to represent the difficult Cherokee language | Sequoya |
A supreme court decision in which Chief Justice Marshall ruled that the Cherokee nation was a distinct community and the laws of Georgia had no force to remove them | Worcester vs Georgia |
The Cherokee’s 800-mile forced march | Trail of Tears |
A leader of Fox and Sauk Indians, decided to fight rather than leave Illinois | Black Hawk |
A Seminole leader who decided to fight rather than leave Florida | Osceola |
President that passed the Indian Removal Act | Andrew Jackson |
Name of the newspaper Indians established. | Phoenix |