Episode 3: Trail of Tears

  1. The U.S. government’s policy of “civilization” was Christian missionary work to teach the Native Americans to be white, including these things:

~Grow ______instead of ______

~ Eat at ______

~ Dress ______

~ Speak ______

~ Pray ______

  1. John Ross was a ______-- ______Cherokee.
  1. In Cherokee culture, land was owned by ______, and the only limit to how much land you

could have was ______

  1. By 1805, Cherokees had lost ______of their land.
  1. Young John Ridge and Elias Boudinot were sent to ______be educated.
  1. What was the white community’s reaction John Ridge marrying Sarah Bird Northup?
  1. John Ross traded with ______and married ______.
  1. Major Ridge’s plantation was ______and his farming ability was ______.
  1. About ______% of the Cherokees owned slaves, most of whom were ______-- ______.
  1. How did a written language revolutionize Cherokee society?
  1. In the 1820s, how did the Cherokee nation rise and prosper?
  1. John Ross became ______, and Cherokees viewed him as a leader of ______.
  1. What effect did strong Cherokee unity and the tribe’s declaration of sovereignty of their lands have on white people of Georgia?
  1. Whites believed Cherokees would have to be taught there was no alternative beyond ______and

______.

  1. Andrew Jackson’s first priority as President was ______and he accomplishedthis

through ______.

  1. Once the Indian Removal Act was passed, the state of Georgiadivided the land into sections of ______acres.
  1. Under the Blood Law, any Cherokee who ______land to ______could be ______

by anyone in any way most ______.

  1. The Cherokees filed more than a dozen suits in federal court; two made it to the Supreme Court. The main question in those two cases was this:

Can a ______between Cherokee Nation and the U.S. supersede (overrule) ______law?

  1. In Worcester v. Georgia, the Court said that Georgia taking Cherokee land was ______.
  1. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court ______wrote the opinion.
  1. John Ridge visited the White House and asked President Jackson if he would force Georgia to comply with the Supreme Court

order. Jackson’s reply was ______.

  1. To Georgia, President Jackson said about the Cherokees, “______.”
  1. What was the Ridge family’s reaction to Cherokee Leader John Ross when he could not stop removal?
  1. In 1835, the Ridge family and others negotiated on behalf of all the Cherokees (without permission) the Treaty of New Echota:

All the tribal lands in the southeast would be given to the U.S. for ______, to relocate west and build schools.

  1. They all knew they had ______authority to make this deal, but they thought they were ______the rest.
  1. After the removal deadline passed and the majority of Cherokee would not leave, the U.S. and Georgia governments began

______.

  1. Less than ______of the 18,000 Cherokees left with the Ridge family because they knew they had ______years.
  1. Cherokee Leader John Ross tried to rally the remaining Cherokees by ______

and he was able to get ______signatures and sewed together in a long scroll for Congress.

  1. It ended up being ignored in Congress because of a ______.
  1. Not long after beginning the trip, ______the infants and the old died. ______of the remainder died too.
  1. In early December, the line of walking Indians stretched for ______miles and took ______months.
  1. Russell G. Townsend saysmoving the Cherokees in this manner is a “stain...upon our national honor”, or ______

______.

  1. What ultimately happened to John Ridge, Elias Boudinot, and Major Ridge? Why was this done?
  1. Writer Jace Weaver believes the Cherokees were lucky because ______

______.