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

Kentucky.

the Northwest.

the Southwest.

Florida.

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Who led troops to victory at the Battle of Tippecanoe in Indiana Territory?

Andrew Jackson

Daniel Boone

Little Turtle

William Henry Harrison

Which statement best describes the Indian Removal Act of 1830?

The act forcibly relocated eastern Indigenous people to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.

The act forcibly removed territory from the Cherokee and auctioned it off to prospectors.

The act created a constitution for the five tribes that had been forcibly removed to Indian Territory.

The act stated that the Cherokee had signed a treaty to give up their lands.

On what grounds did the US Supreme Court refuse to hear the 1831 Cherokee Nation v. Georgia case?

The court declared that Georgia was right to auction off Cherokee land.

The court did not believe it had jurisdiction over matters involving states’ rights.

The court did not recognize the Cherokee tribe as a sovereign nation.

The court stated that the Cherokee had signed a treaty to give up their lands.

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

The US government illegally forced Indigenous people to move off their lands.

The US government appealed the decision and won a ruling in its favor.

The US government tried to purchase Cherokee territory for a steep price.

The US government pressured tribes into signing treaties accepting removal.

Indigenous resistance in the Ohio River Valley ended with

the Treaty of Greenville.

Tecumseh’s death.

the Battle of Tippecanoe.

Sequoyah’s death.

Who was Tecumseh?

a Shawnee leader who led Indigenous resistance to US settlement in the Ohio River Valley

a Miami chieftain whose troops defeated US forces in 1791 in a border war along the Ohio River

a Creek leader who was defeated by Andrew Jackson and his army at Horseshoe Bend

a Seminole leader who tried to protect enslaved people who escaped and were living among the Seminole

How did Indigenous people react to American settlers in the late 1700s and early 1800s?

Most Indigenous people lived west of the Appalachians, so settlement had little effect on them.

Settlement affected Indigenous people very little, but they resented the arrival of explorers.

The two groups were trading partners, so both sides lived in peaceful coexistence.

American settlers and Indigenous people often clashed as settlement spread across the West during that era.

Why did the state of Georgia begin auctioning off Cherokee land in 1828?

Prospectors wanted to mine for gold on Cherokee territory.

Georgians wanted to set up cotton plantations on the land.

The Cherokee were harboring enslaved people who escaped.

American settlers had begun to cross the Appalachians.

Who helped establish the Wilderness Road in the late 1700s?

Daniel Boone

Meriwether Lewis

Zebulon Pike

Tecumseh

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