At the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida-land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. By the end of the decade, very few natives remained anywhere in the southeastern United States. Working on behalf of white settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indians' land, the federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk thousands of miles to a specially designated "Indian territory" across the Mississippi River. This difficult and sometimes deadly journey is known as the Trail of Tears.
At the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida-land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. By the end of the decade, very few natives remained anywhere in the southeastern United States. Working on behalf of white settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indians' land, the federal government forced them to leave their homelands and walk thousands of miles to a specially designated "Indian territory" across the Mississippi River. This difficult and sometimes deadly journey is known as the Trail of Tears.
The purpose of the Indian Removal Act was to take the Indians to the land west of the Mississippi River.
Indian Removal Act
The Indian Removal Act
Making land available for white miners and farmers
The northern industrialists generally frowned upon the Indian Removal Act.
The purpose of the Indian Removal Act was to take the Indians to the land west of the Mississippi River.
The purpose of the Indian Removal Act was to take land and established homes from the Native people with the intent of giving the homes to the new settlers.
Indian Removal Act
justification for the indian removal act
The trail that was caused by the Indian removal act was the Trail of Tears.
The Indian Removal Act
Indian removal.
to make land available for white miners and farmers
Making land available for white miners and farmers
John Marshall said he wanted to enforce the Indian Removal act
The northern industrialists generally frowned upon the Indian Removal Act.
The Indian Removal Act