Question

1. click and drag each answer choice to its correct place in the passage. not all choices will be used.the trail of tears is the name we give to the forced removal of native americans from states in the region of the united states in the 1830s. the are the people that are usually associated with having been devastated by the trail of tears,but there were also many other groups affected, including the creek, and choctaw indians. you can trace the beginning of this period to the year 1830 when president signed the indian removal act into law. this resulted in many indiantribes and each of the being forced to relocate to lands to the west. for much of the 1830s, some native americans refused to leave and believed that the law was not constitutionalbut by 1838, it was clear that resistance would not be successful. in may of that year, u.s. troops began forcing out the native americans from lands in alabama, georgia, south carolina, and they were made to migrate westward to lands theyd be forced to live on, areasthat now make up the state of other indian groups were forced out as well, made to leave their ancestral homes behind themchoctaw, mississippi river, appalachian mountains, southeastern, tennessee, seminole, andrew jackson, john marshall, oklahoma

Explanation:

1. The Trail of Tears targeted Native American nations in the southeastern U.S.
2. The Cherokee are the most well-known nation displaced by the Trail of Tears.
3. The Seminole were one of the major affected groups alongside Creek and Choctaw.
4. President Andrew Jackson signed the 1830 Indian Removal Act, starting the policy.
5. The act forced each of the affected tribes to relocate west.
6. The forced removals targeted lands in Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
7. The relocated nations were forced to settle in land that is now Oklahoma.

Answer:

1. southeastern
2. Cherokee
3. Seminole
4. Andrew Jackson
5. tribes
6. Tennessee
7. Oklahoma