Part 2 Quick Review How were the Creek and Cherokee alike and different What is Sequoyah most famous for Was he Creek or Cherokee Who was the Creek chief that sold 22million acres of his peoples land ID: 621926
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Indian Removal/Trail of Tears
Part 2Slide2
Quick Review
How were the Creek and Cherokee alike and different?
What is Sequoyah most famous for? Was he Creek or Cherokee?
Who was the Creek chief that sold 22million acres of his people’s land?
What did Chief Justice John Marshall decide in the court case
Worcester v. Georgia
?Slide3
Dahlonega Gold Rush
1828
America’s 1
st
gold rush
Miners moved onto Cherokee land without their permissionLed to Trail of Tears 1838Lasted 20 years until gold was found in CALIFORNIA!!Slide4
Indian Removal Act
Passed in 1830
Led to Trail of Tears in 1838
Jackson was out of office and the next president, Martin Van Buren carried it out!
Led by US Army (15,000 total)
Marched to reservations in Oklahoma4,000 Cherokee died! Slide5
Andrew Jackson and John Marshall
John Marshall (Chief Justice of US Supreme Court)= Thought Cherokee were independent and had rights to the land
Andrew Jackson (President)= fought against Native
A
mericans in many battles and wanted them removed from GASlide6
Trail of Tears
http://
www.gpb.org/georgiastories/story/trail_of_tears