Bad feelings between Native Americans and Europeans developed soon after their first meeting. The actions of the Europeans did little to ________________ this mistrust. ____ Smallpox struck the Cherokee nation in 1745. The spread rapidly, as the Native Americans had no natural protection against it. ____ Half the population of the Cherokee nation died as a result of the disease. The effect on those who survived was _______________ Smallpox was unknown in North America before the European's arrival. There is no doubt that the settlers were _________ of the disease. ____ The Cherokee people were helpless against the European settlers. It is __________ that by 1828, the Native Americans had lost nine-tenths of their land. ____ Twenty tribal members signed the 1835 agreement. They had no right to act for the Cherokee Nation and must have known the agreement was a(n)_________. ____ The dispute over Cherokee land reached the highest court in the nation. It was the job of the Supreme Court to give a(n) ______________________ ruling on the matter. ____ The Supreme Court expects to have the last word in legal matters. It must have ___________ the chief of justice when his opinion was ignored. ____ It was the president's duty to obey the Supreme Court. What he thought about the chief justice's ruling is ____________.____ The president openly defied Chief Justice Marshall. He refused to ____________ the right of the Supreme Court to rule against the legality of the the agreement. ____ President Jackson acted outside the law when he ordered the army to expel the Cherokee people. The Supreme Court had told him he lacked the __________.____ The failure to win in court did not deter the government. The solution was to _________ the Native Americans by force from their homes and sent them west. ____ Many men, women, and children died over the course of the journey. The __________ figured will never be known, but its was at least four thousand. ____ The "Trail of Tears" began in Tennessee. The long ________ westward ended in what is now Oklahoma. ____ The Cherokee were a hardworking people. It must have been difficult for them to resume their _________ ways in a new and unfamiliar place. ____

Worldy Wise Book 7 Lesson 1 Review Activity

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