Consider the events that happened regarding the Indians and respond to the question below:
A) Cherokee Indians from Georgia were forced onto the Trail of Tears.
B) Andrew Jackson was elected President of the United States.
C)John Ross protested the Indian Removal Act.
D)Gold is discovered in Georgia on Cherokee land.
From the above-mentioned events that took place, which event happened first?
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Answer:
Brian Hicks
March 2011
John Ross and Major Ridge
John Ross, left, and Major Ridge teamed up to protect Cherokee holdings in what is now Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Library of Congress
John Ross made an unlikely looking Cherokee chief. Born in 1790 to a Scottish trader and a woman of Indian and European heritage, he was only one-eighth Cherokee by blood. Short, slight and reserved, he wore a suit and tie instead of deerskin leggings and a beaver-skin hat. His trading post made him more prosperous than most Indians—or white men. But his mother and grandmother raised him in a traditional household, teaching him the tribe’s customs and legends. When the Cherokees embraced formal education—they were adapting quickly to a world they knew was changing—he attended school with their children. After his mother died, in 1808, Ross worked at his grandfather’s trading post near present-day Chattanooga, an important way station on the road to the West. There he encountered white settlers moving onto Cherokee land.