Removal of Native Americans

By Garretsimon1456

  • Removal of Native Americans

    Removal of Native Americans
    Some whites favored the displacement and dispossession of all Native Americans Others wished to convert Native Americans to Christianity, turn them into farmers and absorb them into the white culture

  • Since the end of the war of 1812

    Since the end of the war of 1812
    Southeastern tribes- the Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, and Chickasaw- had begun to adopt the European culture of their white neighbors

  • 1830

    1830
    Congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830. Under this law, the federal government funded negotiation of treaties that would force the native Americans to move west

  • 1830

    1830
    Jackson pressured the Choctaw to sign a treaty that required them to move from the Mississippi

  • 1831

    1831
    He ordered U.S. troops to forcibly remove the Sauk and Fox from their lands in Illinois and Missouri

  • 1832

    1832
    He forced the Chickasaw to leave their lands in Alabama and Mississippi

  • 1832

    1832
    In Worcester v. Georgia, the Cherokee Nation finally won recognition as a distinct political community. The Court ruled that Georgia was not entitled to regulate the Cherokee nor to invade their lands

  • 1835

    1835
    In 1835, federal agents declared the minority who favored relocation the true representatives of the Cherokee Nation and promptly had them sign the Treaty of New Echota

  • 1838

    1838
    nearly 20,000 Cherokee still remained in the East, President Martin Van Buren ordered their forced removal.

  • 1838

    1838
    By 1838 nearly 20,000 Cherokee still remained in the East, President Martin Van Buren ordered their forced removal.

  • 1838

    1838
    Beginning in October and November of 1838, the Cherokee were sent off in groups of 1,000 each on the journey