Adam Mayer
3/5/08 Discussion Questions

Questions:

1. What were some reasons that the ‘Indian Country’ didn’t work?

2. Do you think the Indians would have been better off if they had become their own state in the Union?

3. Why did the Indians continue to participate in treaty negotiations after previous terms had been breached?

4. Why, even after starting to farm, creating schools, etc, were the Cherokees to be forced out of Georgia?

5. What differences between the whites and the Indians allowed the whites to progress?

6. Do you think the treaties passed in the 1800s should still be pertinent today? Should they be modified at all?

7. How were the Indians different from Slaves? How were they similar?

8. Are there similarities between John Marshall and Las Casas?

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