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| (1830) a congressional act that authorized the removal of Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River |
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| an area covering most of present-day Oklahoma to which most Native Americans in the Southeast were forced to move in the 1830s |
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| a government agency created in the 1800s to oversee federal policy toward Native Americans |
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| (1832) the Supreme Court ruling that stated that the Cherokee nation was a distinct territory over which only the federal government had authority; ignored by both President Andrew Jackson and the state of Georgia |
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| (1838–39) an 800-mile forced march made by the Cherokee from their homeland in Georgia to Indian Territory; resulted in the deaths of almost one-fourth of the Cherokee people |
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