10.2 - Conflicts Over Land

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Across
  1. 1. - The Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw peoples were collectively known as..
  2. 6. - He was the Supreme Court Justice that ruled that Georgia had no right to interfere with the Cherokee.
  3. 8. - In 1830 President _____________, pushed the Indian Removal Act through Congress.
  4. 9. When the relocation of the ___________ ended approximately one quarter of their population was dead.
  5. 10. - Chief _______ _________ helped form the Cherokee Nation into its own constitutional republic.
  6. 11. The “Trail Where They Cried” is also called the “Trail of _______.
  7. 12. This incident prompted calls for additional troops to fight the Seminole in Florida.
Down
  1. 2. This act allowed the federal government to pay Native Americans to move west.
  2. 3. The Treaty of New ________ was controversial because the Cherokees who signed the treaty did not speak for the 17,000 Cherokee in the region.
  3. 4. - In 1834 Congress set aside an area for Native Americans, most of it in what is today the state of
  4. 5. - President Jackson ignored the Supreme Court’s decision in the case of ___________ v. Georgia
  5. 7. - They were the only Native Americans who successfully resisted their removal.