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The Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830. authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. -
Trail Of Tears
The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement of approximately 60,000 people of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850. And the additional thousands of Native Americans and their enslaved African Americans within that were ethnically cleansed by the United States government. -
Reconstruction Treaties
All the treaties contained: amnesty for all crimes committed against the United States prior to the treaties. included specific provisions of peace and friendship toward the United States. -
The Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union. -
The Dawes Act
Named after Senator Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts, it authorized the President of the United States to subdivide Native American tribal communal landholdings into allotments for Native American heads of families and individuals. -
The Oklahoma Land Rush
The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 was the first land run into the Unassigned Lands of former Indian Territory, which had earlier been assigned to the Creek and Seminole peoples. -
Indian Reorganization Act
The act granted a new degree of autonomy to Native Americans in the United States, giving them greater control over their lands and allowing them to form legally recognized tribal governments.