Test Your Knowledge of the
Trail Of Tears
Cherokee Quiz

 

 

INSTRUCTIONS: Java required! It's easy. Just read each question and click on the button in front of your answer. The computer will keep score for you. Try to get at least 7 points. Good luck!


1. Who were the 5 civilizied Tribes?

The Kiowa,Cheyenne,Ute,Comanche,Lakota.
The Apache,Crow,Pawnee,Blackfoot,Ute.
The Cherokee,Creek,Chickasaw,Seminole,Choctaw.
The Seneca,Mohawk,Oneida,Sioux,Arapaho.

2. How Many Native Americans (Indians) would be forced from their homelands and relocated to Indian terriorty?

More than 60 Thousand
More than 50 Thousand
More tan 40 Thousand
More than 30 Thousand

3. When the Native American (Indians) were forced to walk from their homelands to Indian terriorty it was called?

The Daniel Boone Trail
The Trail Of Tears
The Wilderness Trail
The Cherokee Removal Trail

4. There were 7,000 Federal and State troops ordered into the Cherokee Nation to forcibly evict (Remove) the Indians When was the date of the eviction?  

May 14, 1835
May 26, 1838
May 12, 1819
May 24, 1866

5. This Cherokee Man was the inventor of the Cherokee written language, and California's Giant Redwood trees were named after him, what is his name?

Henry Clay
Daniel Webster
John Ross
Sequoyah

6. There was only one Full Blood Indian Brig. General in the Confederate Army, He was Cherokee Who was he? 

General William Bartram
General John Ross
General Stand Watie
General George A. Custer

7. Who was the Chief of the Cherokee Nation that was only 1/8 Blood and had Blue eyes?

Chief John Ridge
Chief John Rollin Ridge
Chief John Ross
Chief Will Rogers

8. The Cherokee People Lived in what type of dwelling?

In a TiPi
In a Adobe Mud Hut
In a Long House
In a Cave

9. The Beloved Woman of the Cherokees is Buried near Benton, Tennessee, Who was she?

Wilma Mankiller
Jenny Wiley
Mary Stapler Ross
Nancy Ward

10. The estimated Number of Cherokee that died from hunger, exposure, and disease  on what is now called the Trail Of Tears were

4,000
2,000
5,000
3,000

 

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