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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
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
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