Indian Removal Act

trail of tears was a series of forced relocations of Native American Nations.The nations that were relocated were Cherokee, Muscogee,seminole,Chicksaw, and Choctaw. The reason that they were relocated was because president Thomas Jefferson believed Indians should’ve been civilized. Jefferson also wanted to convert them to Christianity. In 1791 a series of treaties between the United States and the Cherokees, the treaties gave recognition to the Cherokees as a nation with their own laws and…

Following the Indian Removal Act of 1830, countless Native American tribes were forced to leave their lands by the United States government. The physical removal is known as the Trail of Tears, for the vicious and brutal conditions withstood by the victims of forced relocation. As an affect, displacement results in loss and pain for social, cultural, and religious values, unique to topography. Overtime, succeeding generations must come to terms with the suffering endured by their ancestry.…

The trail of tears was the hardest time for Native Americans during the Westward Expansion. Native Americans were removed from the Eastern and Central United States just to cross hundreds of miles to Oklahoma. Americans knew that since the Native Americans were in ‘their’ territory, they had the right to claim it from them. The Government had two choices to claim the territory from the Native Americans, either kill them off or move them to a different part of the state. In the end, President…

The Removal Act of 1830 was signed by seventh President of the U.S., Andrew Jackson. This act allowed the President to explore unsettled lands pushing the Indians west. The act was not in specific removal of Indian tribes, but in order to acquire their land with treaties. Andrew Jackson professed the Indian Removal Act would be best for the tribes to get away from the whites and it gave them their chance to escape U.S. power. In Jackson's eyes, removing the Indians will also grant them a…

When the white settlers first came to America they were looking for gold and a better life. They were not the first habitants of the land. The Natives, who were there first, in many cases help the settlers by showing them how to hunt, how to survive the weather, showing them new types of crops like corn, squash, potatoes, use plants as medicine. The natives and the white settlers lived around each other and even adopt some of each other cultures. The Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, Creeks and…

to the West to make room. He passed the Indian Removal Policy in1830. The Indian Removal Policy, which called for the removal of Native Americans from the Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and the Georgia area. They also moved their capital Echota in Tennessee to the new capital called New Echota, Georgia and then they eventually moved to the Indian Territory. The Indian Territory was declared in the Act of Congress in 1830 with the Indian Removal Policy. The government of the United…

the Indians and both parties would be happy. This idea was to make the Indians as much like the whites as possible, meaning they would have to convert to Christianity, learn to speak…

unfair agreements is the Indian Removal Act of 1830. This law was signed into law in May of 1830 by President Andrew Jackson (Library of Congress). It gave Jackson the power to grant Native American lands within state borders to white Americans in exchange for land that was unsettled west of the Mississippi. This act lead to many Native Americans being forcefully removed from their homes and lands and being forced into lands west of the Mississippi. Through the Indian Removal Act of 1830,…

government. However one policy is particular was blatantly racist, this was his Indian policy. On May 28th, 1830 the Indian Removal Act was signed by President Jackson. This act granted him the power to give land west of the Missipppi River in exchange for Indian land. (Primary Documents) When the Cherokee Indians refused to relocate, the United States government forcibly removed them. After approximately 4,000 Indians died on this forced march, it was aptly named “The Trail of Tears”. (Primary…

over land ownership and the movement of the Native American’s off of their land is part of the American story. As whites moved across America, the Indians were moved to less desirable land. In the two essays that I wrote for this class, Kaw People and Absentee Landowners the interesting connection between both essays is that not only were the Indians moved off the land but settlers and their descendants who wanted the land were priced out of the land in Chase County. Both essays are…