Removal of Native Americans

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  • Removal of Native Americans

    Some white settlers favored the displacement and dispossession of all Native Americans, others wished to convert them into Christianity.

  • After the War of 1812

    Some tribes have begun to adopt the European culture, nonetheless; white settlers wanted the land.

  • Indian Removal Act

    Jackson believed that assimilation would not work and that protecting the Native Americans would take too many troops. He decided to move the Native Americans to the West. Congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830.

  • "Treaties"

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

  • Forced Movement

    Forced Sauk and Fox In Illinois and Missouri in 1831.

  • More Forced Movement

    Forced the Chickasaw to leave their lands in Alabama and Mississippi.

  • Worcester v. Georgia

    Cherokee Nation finally won recognition as a distinct political community. Ruled that Georgia was not entitled to regulate the Cherokee not to invade their lands.

  • Treaty of New Echota

    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 that gave the Cherokee eight million acres of land.

  • A long Journey ahead

    Cherokee was sent off in groups of about 1,000 each on the long journey. 800-miles trip was made partly by steamboat and railroad, but mostly on foot.

  • Trail of Tears

    Government officials stole the Cherokee's money, while outlaws made off with their livestock. Cherokee had to bury a quarter of their population of their jounery.