Americans living in Indian lands, often referred to as settlers or pioneers, were primarily individuals and families who moved westward during the 19th century, motivated by various factors such as the promise of land, economic opportunities, and the ideology of Manifest Destiny. Their presence frequently led to conflict with Native American tribes, as these settlers sought to claim and cultivate land that Indigenous peoples had inhabited for generations. Moreover, policies such as the Homestead Act facilitated this westward expansion, often disregarding the rights and sovereignty of Native American nations.
The Indian Removal Act
help Native Americans living in urban areas
His policy was " a good Indian was a dead one" and he carried that thought out to his fullest extent. Under his administration the Indian removal act was passed to move Native Americans onto reservations from ancestral lands.
The Native Americans lost a great deal. Without the French, Native Americans could not stop British settlers from moving on their lands
The Dawes Act was an effort to make assimilation the government's official policy. The aim was to "Americanize" the Native Americans , cultivating in them the desire to own property and to farm.
The Indian Removal Act
he later gave up but king George 3 banned colonists from settling on Indian lands.
he later gave up but king George 3 banned colonists from settling on Indian lands.
After the revolutionary war, the british left most of their forts in the United States. Without british support, it became harder for the american indians to stop settlers from moving to indian lands. In many areas, tribes fought settlers to keep their lands.And after that the americans won and got there lands.
To move them to specific lands
1830
Indian Removal
The Indians had no problems the Americans took over their lands and it made them upset
Native Americans were moved from ancestral lands to reservations.
1830
The result was the removal of Indian tribes living east of Mississippi, in exchange for lands to the west.
1830