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Indian Removal Act
Allowed the president to make treaties in which the American Indians in the east traded their lands for new territory in the great plains.
In 1831, the Supreme Court said that the Indians had the right to keep their lands.
Andrew Jackson disagreed, and groups that refused to move
west were met with Military force and tragic results.
The Sac & Fox Indians
of Illinois
After refusing to abandon their land and go on the Trail of Tears to new territory, the US government and tribes fought a 2 year war which resulted in the slaughter of most Indian warriors and the rest were taken away in chains.
"Black Hawk (The leader of the Sac & Fox) is an Indian. He has done nothing for which an Indian ought to be ashamed. He has fought for his countrymen, the squaws [women] and papooses [young children], against white men who came, year after year, to cheat them of and take away their land. You know the cause of our making war. It is known to all white men. They ought to be ashamed of it."
Cherokee Removal
"I fought through the War Between the States and have seen many men shot, but the Cherokee Removal was the cruelest work I ever knew."
— Georgia soldier who participated in the removal
"Cherokees! The President of the United States has sent me, with a powerful army, to cause you, in obedience to the Treaty of 1835, to join that part of your people who are already established in prosperity, on the other side of the Mississippi. . . . The full moon of May is already on the wane, and before another shall have passed away, every Cherokee man, woman and child . . . must be in motion to join their brethren in the far West."
- Gen. Winfield Scott, May 10, 1838
A fourth of all those removed died during
the journey, and they had to be buired along
the trail. This gave the families no place to
mourn the lost of their loved ones, their last
memories of them where of pain and sufferage.
After the Trail of Tears in their new land
fights began to break out with the Cherokee.
The younger generation began blaming
their elders for moving to this new undeveloped
land with few resources to compared to
their old homeland.
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The American Nation by James West Davidson
Trail of Tears Journey & Aftermath
The Trail of Tears was a Genocide because of the violent actions taken by the US Government
The Trail of Tears:
Genocide:
the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation
The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of Native American nations in the United States following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The relocated people suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation while en route, and more than ten thousand died before reaching their various destinations.
Indian Removal Policy Background
Andrew Jackson - President of the US during the Indian Removal
"I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it."