history timeline

  • Indian removal act

    Indian removal act
    from president Jackson to congress letting the president to give lands west for indian lands that are in state borders
    The five tribes weren't moving and assimilation was no longer the goal so Jackson signed the act to remove them
  • Choctaw nation removed from mississippi

    Choctaw was the first of the five tribes to be forced to be removed
  • Trail of tears

    Trail of tears
    The trail of tears was a path to new land where the five tribes had to walk through which caused a lot of tribe members to die from hunger and sickness
  • the civil war

    the civil war was a war between the union and the confederacy. The war was for freeing slaves or not freeing the slaves.
  • Reconstruction treaties

    The reconstruction made former slaves from the tribes enroll as tribe members this was a second Indian removal act and forced to move for the westward expansion
  • Dawes act

    Dawes act
    the Dawes act is the government signing the act aiming to assimilate the tribes into American society
  • Oklahoma land rush

    The government opened the land to white settlers came and ran in to get new land to themselves
  • Indian reorganization act

    the act affected natives because the tribes lost control over their identity and membership of the land