Indian Removal
Across
- 6. wanted that land for growing cotton.
- 7. president at the time
- 9. In the 1840s, most Seminoles were eventually removed to _____.
- 11. signed the first treaty in 1830, and they moved between 1831 and 1833.
- 12. adopted some white customs.
- 13. state passed a law that forced the Creeks to giving up most of their land.
- 15. to many ___ leaders and white farmers.
Down
- 1. Many Cherokees became ______.
- 2. refused to move, choosing instead to fight a war against removal.
- 3. gave him the power to offer the Native Americans land west of the Mississippi for their land in the East.
- 4. created the alphabet for the Cherokee language
- 5. Native Americans lived on _____ land.
- 8. After the War of 1812, the federal government signed treaties with several Native American groups in the _______.
- 10. included the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee.
- 11. the first case, _____ reached the Supreme Court in 1831.
- 14. Today, most of that area is in the state of _____