Trail of Tears Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. Removal Act, signed by President Jackson in 1830
  2. 5. Ross, Chief who resisted until the bitter end and did not form any agreements
  3. 6. the tribe in Georgia who used legal action to resist removal
  4. 7. Trail of ______ when about 20,000 Cherokees were forced to march westward
  5. 12. the removal of Native tribes was often this
  6. 13. the Supreme Court ruled that Georgia did not have this over the Cherokees
  7. 14. Georgia officials did this and took native lands anyway
Down
  1. 1. US president who took office in 1829
  2. 3. Echota, the Treaty of ____________ agreed to payment in exchange for relocation with the Cherokee leaders
  3. 4. the lands that Native Americans were forced to leave
  4. 8. type of government used by the Cherokee people in the 1830's
  5. 9. easily drove Chief Black Hawks tribes back across the Mississippi river
  6. 10. where the army pushed the Choctaws when they removed them from their native lands
  7. 11. Hawk, Chief who led about a thousand Sac and Fox tribes