The Indian Removal Act of 1830 authorized
a. agreements between the president and Indian tribes to exchange their land in eastern states for new land west of the Mississippi River.
b. Congress to order all Indians out of United States territory.
c. law enforcement to apprehend, detain, and deport leaders of Indian tribes.
d. the president to forcibly remove Indians from their lands.
e. the United States to seize control of reservation lands.
Question 2
In Worcester v. Georgia the Supreme Court ruled that
a. Andrew Jackson had broken the law by allowing the Indian Removal Act.
b. Cherokee Nation v. Georgia was wrongly decided.
c. Indian tribes had the same status as a foreign nation.
d. Indian tribes must surrender all authority to the state governments.
e. the Cherokee Nation had rights that the state of Georgia must respect.
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