Warm-up #7 How had Jackson interacted with Native Americans before the Indian Removal Act? How...
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Warm-up #7 How had Jackson interacted with Native Americans before the Indian Removal Act? How does his treatment of Native Americans reflect attitudes
Warm-up #7 How had Jackson interacted with Native Americans
before the Indian Removal Act? How does his treatment of Native
Americans reflect attitudes towards race in the 1800s?
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CH. 9.3 Assessment: 1a, 1b, 2b, & 2c 1a. What Native
American groups were affected by the Indian Removal Act? Where were
they relocated? The Native American groups that were affected by
the Indian Removal Act were the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creeks,
Chickasaw, and Native Americans east of the Mississippi River. They
were relocated into Indian Country in modern Oklahoma. 1b. Why did
government officials want to relocate Native Americans to the West?
Government officials wanted to relocate Native Americans to the
West because they wanted to open the land the Native Americans had
occupied to settlement by American farmers. Gold was dicovered in
Georgia.
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CH. 9.3 Assessment: 1a, 1b, 2b, & 2c 2a. What was the Trail
of Tears. The Trail of Tears was the 800-mile forced march of the
Cherokee to Indian Country. 2b. Why did the state of Georgia want
to relocate the Cherokee, and what did the Cherokee do in response?
The state of Georgia wanted to relocate the Cherokee because gold
was discovered on their land in Georgia. In response, the Cherokee
said they were an independent nation and that the government of
Georgia had no legal power over their lands. 2c. What do you think
of President Jacksons refusal to enforce the Worcester v. Georgia
ruling? I think that Jackson refused to enforce the ruling because
he wanted Cherokee land and gold for the USA.
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Slide 5
Jackson did not get along with Indians Jackson had fought
against the Creek at Horseshoe Bend Forced them to give up millions
of acres of land Felt that to solve the problem of clashes between
settlers and Native Americans, the Native Americans had to move
across the Mississippi River
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Indian Removal Act Passed in 1832 by Congress Close vote in
both House and Senate Allowed Jackson to sign treaties with Native
Americans to have them move west Did not say that the Indians could
be removed by force Jackson forced them to move anyway
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Trail of Tears Describes the forced removal of several Native
American tribes Over 30,000 were forced to move Between 2,000-6,000
died on this forced march Journey was several hundred miles
long
Slide 8
Murder is Murder Murder is murder and somebody must answer,
somebody must explain the streams of blood that flowed in the
Indian country in 1838. Somebody must explain the four- thousand
silent graves that mark the trail of the Cherokees to their exile.
I wish I could forget it all, but the picture of six-hundred and
forty-five wagons lumbering over the frozen ground with their cargo
of suffering humanity still lingers in my memory -Private John G.
Burnett 2 nd Regiment, Mounted Infantry Cherokee Indian Removal
1838-39
