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The Indian Removal Act
The president of the US (Andrew Jackson) forced the five civilized tribes to move to Indian territory so he could have their land -
The Trail of Tears
Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, which forcibly removed thousands of American Indians from their homelands in the southeastern United States and do to that a lot of native American lost their lives. -
The Civil War
The war resulted in the emancipation of four million enslaved African Americans. It also brought vast changes to the nation's financial system, fundamentally altered the relationship between the states and the federal government, and became modern history's first total war -
The Reconstruction Treaties
Generally, all the treaties contained amnesty for all crimes committed against the United States prior to the treaties and included specific provisions of peace and friendship toward the United States. -
The Dawes act
Also known as the General Allotment Act, the law authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals. -
The Oklahoma Land Rush
Men and women rushed to claim homesteads or to purchase lots in one of the many new towns that sprang into existence overnight. -
The Indian Reorganization Act
The most important thing the IRA accomplished is said to be the promotion of the exercise of tribal self-governing powers.