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During the late 1700s, the Wilderness Road led to the settlement of

A
Kentucky.
B
the Northwest.
C
the Southwest.
D
Florida.
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Who led troops to victory at the Battle of Tippecanoe in Indiana Territory?

A
Andrew Jackson
B
Daniel Boone
C
Little Turtle
D
William Henry Harrison
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Which statement best describes the Indian Removal Act of 1830?

A
The act forcibly relocated eastern Indigenous people to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.
B
The act forcibly removed territory from the Cherokee and auctioned it off to prospectors.
C
The act created a constitution for the five tribes that had been forcibly removed to Indian Territory.
D
The act stated that the Cherokee had signed a treaty to give up their lands.
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On what grounds did the US Supreme Court refuse to hear the 1831 Cherokee Nation v. Georgia case?

A
The court declared that Georgia was right to auction off Cherokee land.
B
The court did not believe it had jurisdiction over matters involving states’ rights.
C
The court did not recognize the Cherokee tribe as a sovereign nation.
D
The court stated that the Cherokee had signed a treaty to give up their lands.
5

How did the US government react to the Supreme Court’s finding in Worcester v. Georgia?

A
The US government illegally forced Indigenous people to move off their lands.
B
The US government appealed the decision and won a ruling in its favor.
C
The US government tried to purchase Cherokee territory for a steep price.
D
The US government pressured tribes into signing treaties accepting removal.
6

Indigenous resistance in the Ohio River Valley ended with

A
the Treaty of Greenville.
B
Tecumseh’s death.
C
the Battle of Tippecanoe.
D
Sequoyah’s death.
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Who was Tecumseh?

A
a Shawnee leader who led Indigenous resistance to US settlement in the Ohio River Valley
B
a Miami chieftain whose troops defeated US forces in 1791 in a border war along the Ohio River
C
a Creek leader who was defeated by Andrew Jackson and his army at Horseshoe Bend
D
a Seminole leader who tried to protect enslaved people who escaped and were living among the Seminole
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How did Indigenous people react to American settlers in the late 1700s and early 1800s?

A
Most Indigenous people lived west of the Appalachians, so settlement had little effect on them.
B
Settlement affected Indigenous people very little, but they resented the arrival of explorers.
C
The two groups were trading partners, so both sides lived in peaceful coexistence.
D
American settlers and Indigenous people often clashed as settlement spread across the West during that era.
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Why did the state of Georgia begin auctioning off Cherokee land in 1828?

A
Prospectors wanted to mine for gold on Cherokee territory.
B
Georgians wanted to set up cotton plantations on the land.
C
The Cherokee were harboring enslaved people who escaped.
D
American settlers had begun to cross the Appalachians.
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Who helped establish the Wilderness Road in the late 1700s?

A
Daniel Boone
B
Meriwether Lewis
C
Zebulon Pike
D
Tecumseh

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