Q 01/05

Which Tennessee congressman lost his seat after voting against the Indian Removal Act in 1830?

A) James K. Polk

B) Davy Crockett

C) Sam Houston

D) John Bell

Answer · why

B) Davy Crockett

Davy Crockett was the only member of Tennessee's delegation to vote no, and the Cherokee principal chief wrote to thank him. Voters back home were les...

Q 02/05

In 1847 a nation driven west on the Trail of Tears sent $170 in famine relief to which country?

A) Ireland

B) Scotland

C) Poland

D) Greece

Answer · why

A) Ireland

Ireland remembers the gift with Kindred Spirits, a ring of nine steel eagle feathers in a County Cork park. The donors had been uprooted themselves on...

Q 03/05

Which president signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830 and made removal his top legislative priority?

A) Martin Van Buren

B) James Monroe

C) John Quincy Adams

D) Andrew Jackson

Answer · why

D) Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson and his successor used the law to push more than 60,000 people from at least 18 tribes off their homelands.

Q 04/05

Which country star played a Cherokee chief in a 1970 public television drama, Trail of Tears?

A) Willie Nelson

B) Waylon Jennings

C) Johnny Cash

D) Merle Haggard

Answer · why

C) Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash had already devoted a whole 1964 album, Bitter Tears, to the mistreatment of Native Americans by the government.

Q 05/05

What find near Dahlonega, Georgia, sent thousands of miners onto Cherokee land before removal?

A) Silver

B) Gold

C) Coal

D) Copper

Answer · why

B) Gold

Gold set off the second big rush of its kind in the United States, and the flood of miners onto Cherokee land became known as the Great Intrusion.