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| (1830); congressional act that allowed the removal (forcing off of their own land) of American Indians who lived east of the Mississippi River |
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| territory, or land, covering most of what is now Oklahoma; the U.S. government forced most American Indians in the Southeast to move there in the 1830s |
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| government agency created in the 1800s to manage federal policy (laws and rules) about American Indians |
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| Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek |
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| (1830); treaty, or written agreement, in which the Choctaw Indians gave up more than 10 million acres of land in Mississippi and agreed to go to Indian Territory |
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| (1832); Supreme Court decision that the Cherokee Nation was a separate territory that only the U.S. government could control; it was ignored by both President Andrew Jackson and the state of Georgia |
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| 1838–39); the 800-mile walk that U.S. soldiers forced the Cherokee to take from their homeland in Georgia to Indian Territory; led to the deaths of thousands of Cherokee |
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| Sauk leader who refused to be pushed from his village until Indian forces ran out of food and supplies |
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| Cherokee who developed a writing system |
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| first principal chief,Cherokee created a government like US with election system, bicameral council, and court system |
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| Seminole leader who urged Seminole to resist removal by force |
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