1. The Removal of the Creek andCherokee Indians from Georgia.

2. Developed symbols to represent the 80sounds of the Cherokee tribes language called a syllabary. Cherokee was the first Indian group tohave a written language. Syllabary not written in the white manslanguage. Why is this important? 3. CreekIndian leader who attacked settlersmoving into Creek territory along the OconeeRiver. The skirmishes were known as the OconeeWar. Eventually McGillivray met with PresidentGeorge Washington and signed a peacetreaty entitled the Treaty of New York. Treaty promised the US all Creek land east ofthe Oconee River belongs to the government,and Georgians could not move West of theRiver. 4. SoldCreek land in Georgia for $200,000 inthe treaty of Indian Springs. Later Creeks who did not agree withMcIntosh selling Creek land killedMcIntosh. 5. Afterbeing elected president of the UnitedStates, Andrew Jackson passed the IndianRemoval Act. The Indian Removal Act called for allNative Americans to be removed from thesoutheastern part of the United States andsent out west. 6. Gold was discovered in the Cherokeeterritory by a farmer named BenjaminParks. After the discovery of gold over 10,000settlers rushed into Cherokee land forcingthe Cherokee off of their land. Those Cherokee who stayed had theirrights taken away and were treated veryharshly by the settlers. 7. Reverand Samuel Worchester and severalmissionaries refused to leave Cherokee land afterGeorgia Governor George Gilmar made it illegalfor white citizens to live on Cherokee land. Goveror Gilmar stated that in order for whitecitizens to live on Cherokee land they must pledgeallegiance to the state and receive a permit fromthe Governor. For not pledging allegiance and leaving Cherokeeland Worchester was arrested and imprisoned. Hefiled an appeal to the US Supreme court,specifically Judge John Marshall in attempts to getout of prison. 8. JudgeJohn Marshall ruled in favor ofWorchester and said that he should bereleased from prison. Governor Gilmar and President AndrewJackson ignored Marshall decision andrefused to enforce it. Worchester andButler served 16 years in prison untileventually agreeing to pledge allegiance tothe state and leave Cherokee land. 9. JohnRoss was a Cherokee chief whomade many trips to Washington inattempts to ask Congress to help protectthe Cherokee and their land. On one of his trips he brought a petitionwith over 15,000 signatures in protest ofthe Indian Removal Act. 10. TheCherokee Indians were eventuallyforcibly removed from their land in theSoutheastern region of the United States. The Cherokee were forced to move toIndian reservations out west in Oklahoma. The trip out west came to be known as theTrail of Tears because many Cherokeedied from diseases and malnourishmentwhile traveling.