1. How do you think a white man in Tennessee in 1835 would regard Andrew Jackson? What do you think a Choctaw or a Cherokee person at the same time would say about him? 2. Do you think Andrew Jackson was a war criminal? 3. Do you think the US government intentionally misled the Indians? Why? 4. What would American life be like now if the US government had different policies toward native peoples? 5. How could the US government get away with breaking its treaties with native peoples? 6. How did the railroad impact Native Americans? 7. How did native people react to what was happening to them? In what ways did they resist?