10. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 10: The Cherokee Removal

**Quiz for Document 10.3: John Marshall, Majority Opinion, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)**

Quiz for Document 10.3: John Marshall, Majority Opinion, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)

Document 10.3: John Marshall, Majority Opinion, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

Question 10.7

1. John Marshall, in this opinion, suggests that the Cherokee Nation’s status in relation to the United States was like that of

a foreign nation.

a state government.

an American colony.

a domestic dependent nation.

Question 10.8

2. What did this decision of the Supreme Court state about Indians’ relationship to the land they occupied at the time?

The land belonged to the United States, but Indians were allowed to live on it as long as they obeyed national and state laws.

The Indians had a right to the lands they occupied until they ceded it voluntarily to the United States government.

The Indians had a right to the lands they occupied unless a state government decided that white settlers needed it.

The Indians had no right to the lands they occupied because they had ceded that right with the Treaty of Hopewell even before the drafting of the Constitution.

Question 10.9

3. What, according to John Marshall and the other justices, made the Cherokee Nation different from a fully sovereign nation?

Its small population

Its mention in the Constitution

Its reliance on the United States for protection

Its omission from the Constitution

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