Praxis II Citizenship

Answer: B - Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 to end a territorial dispute with the Cherokee Indians. The dispute began with the Five Civilized Tribes: the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee-Creek, and Seminole tribes. However, the dispute between the Cherokee over their ancestral lands in Georgia was particularly hard fought, and it was the dispute that compelled Jackson to sign the act into law. This was the event that ultimately began the “Trail of Tears,” the forced migration of Native Americans west of the Mississippi River, which ravaged the tribes forced to comply as thousands of American Indians died from the hardship of the journey, illness, or maltreatment.