Indian Removal
In your own words, describe the plight of the Native American tribes during the early 1800s, the
attempts to remove them from their land, including the legal, political, economic, and cultural
justifications for doing so. Explain why you think that this type of treatment continued in the South.
Next, also in your own words, explain the U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding the Native American
nations in Worcester v. Georgia. What was the court saying should happen regarding the Indians
nations? What actually happened to the Indians? Was it different than what the court intended?
Next, also in your own words, explain how the last of the Indians in the south were forcibly removed.
Finally, looking back on how the Native American tribes were treated by the national and state
governments, do you think that the descendants of those people should be compensated for the loss of
their land? If, yes, then what type of compensation? If no, why?
