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
