Reteaching Activity 11-2
1. What did the Indian removal Act
allow?
 It
allowed the federal government to pay
Native Americans to move west
2. What area did Congress create
in 1834?
 Indian
territory in present-day Oklahoma
3. How did Chief Justice John
Marshall rule in Worcester v.
Georgia?
 He
ruled that Georgia had no right to
interfere with the Cherokee
 He said that Native Americans were
protected by the Federal Government and
the Constitution
4. Whom did President Andrew
Jackson support in the same case?
 Georgia
5. Who was sent to remove the
Cherokee from their land?
 General
Winfield Scott and an army of
7,000 federal troops
6. What was the Trail of Tears?
How did it get its name?
 It
was a forced journey west by the
Cherokee.
 It
got its name because thousands of
Cherokee died along the way, due to
harsh weather and starvation.
7. Who was the Sauk chieftain who
led a force of Sauk and Fox people
back to their homeland in Illinois?
 Black
Hawk
8. How were the Seminole people
different from other Native
American groups?
 They
were the only Native Americans who
successfully resisted their removal by the
federal government
9. What Seminole chief went to war
rather than leave Florida?
 Osceola
10. Who aided the Seminole
people in their war against white
settlers?
 A group
of African Americans who had
escaped slavery
11. What fighting tactics did the
Seminole use?
 They
used guerrilla tactics
 Making surprise attacks and then
retreating back into the forests and
swamps
12. Who won the Seminole wars?
 The
Seminole people