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The Cherokee nation was forced to give up their lands and move to Oklahoma. -
A high intensified conflict, often involving regular armed forces that are sustained, organized and large-scale. -
Congress created the Southern Treaty Commission to write new Treaties with the tribes that side with the Confederacy. -
This act authorized the president to confiscate and redistribute tribal lands in the West. -
People rushed to claim homesteads or to buy lots in one of the new towns that sprang into existence overnight. An estimate of 11 thousand agricultural homesteads were claimed. -
This act offered federal subsidies to tribes that adopt constitutions of the US and replace governments with city council styled government.