Indian Removal Act

the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The government forced these 125,000 Native American’s out of their homes near the Appalachian Mountains, to relocate in Oklahoma. The trail from the Appalachian Mountains to their new homes in Oklahoma was about a 900 mile walk. The 900-mile trip took nearly nine months to complete. On this trip, approximately 1/4th of the Native Americans lost their lives due to dehydration, starvation, sickness and other reasons.…

the Cherokees should have stayed or left. Cherokee representatives believed that the United States will let them stay, while Boudinot believed that they should leave otherwise the United States would force them out in a violent way. One reason why removal offered the best chance for Cherokee survival is that if they stayed, they would lose their Cherokee civilization. On October 2nd, 1832, Elias Boudinot wrote, “The states’ control over the Cherokee government will stop their progress and it…

Early Days 1720-1865, Early History of Mississippi Early settlers of Southwestern Mississippi would write back home and would write about the abundance of this new place. One Mississippi immigrant described his new home as “a wide empty country with a soil that yields such noble crops that any man is sure to succeed.” Another new settler wrote to family back in Maryland that “the crops [here] are certain… and abundance spreads the table of the poor man and contentment smiles on every…

For this week’s forum I decided to research the Shawnee and Chickasaw American Indian Tribes due to the fact these particular tribes populated both areas the paternal and maternal sides of my family originated from. The Shawnee tribe mainly populated Northeast areas such as Ohio and Indiana. Their culture was based on a village lifestyle where farming and hunting were done by the men of the tribe while the women focused on household chores and took to pottery. The homes were round in shape and…

Exceptionalism driven by Manifest Destiny and the American Industrial Revolution sought new lands and new frontiers to conquer. Those lands were west, into the Plains and Oklahoma territories. Decades prior, the U.S. Government had set up a Bureau of Indian Affairs inside the Department of the Interior. A Federal Executive branch of the U.S. government in charge of the administration and preservation of most elected land and normal assets and the organization of projects identifying with the…

On May 28th of the year 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed off on a law named the Indian Removal Policy. This granted the United States Government the right to negotiate with the Native American tribes about relocating the Natives from their current home to land west of the Mississippi River. This law was beneficial to the Native Americans on several accounts. The law ended immediate conflict between the Native Americans and the European American Settlers harassing them, it gave them new land…

to escort the Natives out, by making the Indian Removal Act. The author’s perspectives of the Indian Removal Act and the…

Native Americans. He decides to ignore Congress and move the tribes to Oklahoma, thousands of miles from their homes. The authors’ perspectives on the Indian Removal Act/Trail of Tears shapes the reader's understanding of the events by showing different impacts…

I think they could have survived if they remained on their land. They were doing just fine before Andrew Jackson came along with his Indian Removal Act. They had all the resources they needed to survive if they stayed on their land. Much sooner than the Indian Removal Act they had a populace of 25,000 and were viewed as the biggest Native Indian tribe in America. They were moreover named a champion amongst the most socialized tribes in the range and more Westernized in their standpoint. They had…

Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United States of America, he served two terms as a Democratic Republican from 1829-1837. The entire Jackson campaign not only started up revolutionary political election tactics such as rallies, parades, and lavish dinners that supporters paid for, but it also sparked up a whole new era of mass democracy, and gave birth to the political party that we now know as the “Democrats”. Mr. Jackson considered himself, a president for the people, with a…