A Terrible Price is Paid (24-30)

Worcester vs. Georgia

Supreme Court ruled Indians could stay on their land.

Elizabeth Freeman

a slave who earned her freedom by a court in Mass.

James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Marquis de Lafayette, JQA

All critics of slavery

Sequoyah

Developed an alphabet for the Cherokee language

Richard Allen

First bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal church in Philadelphia. He opposed relocating blacks back to Africa.

1808

Jefferson asked congress to consider ending slave trade.

Henry Clay

Thought Indian land belonged to them

The Cherokee

lived like the Americans: had slaves, printed a newspaper, wrote a constitution, some converted to Christianity. (From Georgia)

Lemuel Haynes

African American minister for a white church in Vermont

Chief Osceola

Americans tricked him and ignored truce flag, he was captured.

Trail of tears

Began in Georgia and led to Indian territory beyond the Mississippi.

Robert Carter III

Freed his slaves because of his religious principles.

Seminole

From Florida

Indian Removal Act 1830

Gave President Jackson the right to move eastern tribes west of Mississippi River.

Georgia

Gold was discovered on Cherokee land.

Paul Cuffe

Helped free blacks win the right to vote in Mass.

Slave Laws

In 1830 it was illegal to import slaves from other countries, slaves were counted as 3/5 person, slave population was rising.

Talking leaves

Written letters on paper