The correct answer is C) John Ross and the Cherokee Indians.
The other options of this question were A) southern slaveholders. B) northern industrialists. D) white setters in northern Georgia.
John Ross and the Cherokee Indians had been most likely to view the passage of this legislation as a negative situation.
We are talking about the Indian Removal Act of 1830, signed by President Andrew Jackson. The act gave authority to the President of the United States to move Native American Indian tribes to remove them to a new territory or reservations located west the Mississippi River.
John Ross (1790-1866) was an important Cherokee leader that ruled the Cherokee nation for 40 years. Of course, he led the Cherokee resistance as an opposition activist to the removal ordered by the federal government.