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Settlers
White settlers either favored the displacement and dispossession of all Native Americans. Others wished to convert Native Americans to Christianity, farmers, and absorb them into whit culture -
Tribes
Southeastern tribes - Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole, Creek and Chickasaw began to adopt European culture. They lived in Georgia, North and south Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee Land that the whites wanted -
Indian Removal
Indian Removal act. under this act the federal government funded the negotiation of treaties that would force the native Americans to move west -
Choctaw
Jackson pressured the Choctaw to sign a treaty that required them to move from Mississippi. -
Force
Jackson ordered U.S. troops to forcefully remove the Sauk and Fox from their lands in Illinois and Missouri. -
Chichasaw
Jackson forced the Chickasaw to leave their lands in Alabama and Mississippi. -
Worcester vs Georgia
The Cherokee nation won recognition as a district political community. The court ruled that Georgia was not entitled to regulate the Cherokee nor to invade their lands -
New Echota
Federal agents declared the minority who favored relocation the representatives of the Cherokee nation. The treaty of New Echota gave the last 8 million acres of Cherokee land to the federal government for $5 million and land west of Mississippi river. -
Indians removed again
Cherokee still remained in the east so president Martin Van Buren ordered them to be removed. U.S. troops under command rounded them up and drove them to camps. -
Cherokee moved
In October and November Cherokee were sent of in groups of 1,000 on an 800 mile trip partly by steamboat and train but mostly by foot.