U.S. and Cherokee Relations

After reading and marking up the handout please answer the following questions.

1. Who has the authority to make treaties with Native American tribes? Why?

2. Why did the U.S. government want Native American tribes to relocate west?

3. What is assimilation? Give three examples of how the Cherokee has successfully assimilated by the 1820s.

4. What was the Treaty of Hopewell?

5. What was the dilemma that both Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams faced?