Native Removal

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  1. 4. The Creek Chief who signed the Treaty of Indian Springs ceding the last of the Creek land to Georgia
  2. 8. The reason that Georgia’s western boundary changed from the Mississippi River to the Chattahoochee River
  3. 11. This Supreme Court case ruled that Native reservation were sovereign nations and not subject to laws outside of federal Indian Affairs Office
  4. 12. This invention caused a dramatic increase for the demand for land and enslaved persons
  5. 13. The ethnic cleansing and forced displacement of Native people on the part of the U.S.
  6. 14. Following the discovery of gold in north Georgia, this was the massive incursion of immigrants to Cherokee lands in search of gold
  7. 16. The treaty that ceded the last of the Muscogee land to Georgia
  8. 18. Signed illegally by Cherokee who did not represent the Cherokee people and ceded the Cherokee reservation land to Georgia
  9. 19. The 7th President of the United States who signed the Indian Removal Act
Down
  1. 1. The longest serving Supreme Court Justice who sided with the Cherokee
  2. 2. Land policy only in Georgia that was based on luck as to whether participants got land
  3. 3. The longest serving Chief of the Cherokee who fought native removal and won
  4. 5. Passed in Congress by one vote, this law would be enforced on the Trail of Tears
  5. 6. The native tribe whose reservation was located in northwest Georgia
  6. 7. The official name of the Creek People
  7. 9. The acronym representing Georgia’s capitals as they moved westward with the population
  8. 10. Land policy that ended to due corruption that gave 200 acres to the head of the household
  9. 15. First state funded university in the United States
  10. 17. The expansion of this technology increased the