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Jackson & Federal Power (College Board AP® US History): Exam Questions

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11 mark

“Major General Scott, of the United States’ Army, announces to the troops assembled and assembling in this country, that, with them, he has been charged by the President to cause the Cherokee Indians yet remaining in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Alamba, to remove to the West, according to the term of the Treaty of 1835.” 

Cherokee Agency, Orders No. 25 Head Quarters, Eastern Division Cherokee Agency, 1838

Which development is most directly referred to in the extract?

  • The Trail of Tears

  • The Treaty of Fort Laramie

  • The Battle of Horseshoe Bend

  • The Treaty of Fort Stanwix

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21 mark

“Major General Scott, of the United States’ Army, announces to the troops assembled and assembling in this country, that, with them, he has been charged by the President to cause the Cherokee Indians yet remaining in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Alamba, to remove to the West, according to the term of the Treaty of 1835.” 

Cherokee Agency, Orders No. 25 Head Quarters, Eastern Division Cherokee Agency, 1838

The orders expressed in the extract were most strongly influenced by 

  • Worcester v. Georgia

  • Southern cotton cultivation

  • Market pressures

  • Jacksonian policies

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31 mark

“Major General Scott, of the United States’ Army, announces to the troops assembled and assembling in this country, that, with them, he has been charged by the President to cause the Cherokee Indians yet remaining in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Alamba, to remove to the West, according to the term of the Treaty of 1835.” 

Cherokee Agency, Orders No. 25 Head Quarters, Eastern Division Cherokee Agency, 1838

Which of the following had the most direct influence on the extract

  • White paternalism and racial superiority

  • Manifest Destiny

  • The Ghost Dance Movement 

  • Indigenous people's assimilation federal policies

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41 mark

“Major General Scott, of the United States’ Army, announces to the troops assembled and assembling in this country, that, with them, he has been charged by the President to cause the Cherokee Indians yet remaining in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Alamba, to remove to the West, according to the term of the Treaty of 1835.” 

Cherokee Agency, Orders No. 25 Head Quarters, Eastern Division Cherokee Agency, 1838

The developments identified in the extract most directly foreshadowed which of the following?

  • The Second Seminole War

  • The Battle of Tippecanoe

  • The Treaty of Fort Wayne

  • The Indian Removal Act of 1830

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