Indian Removal Act Storyboard Patrick Block
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- Congress
- Davey Crocket - "not make me ashamed in day of judgement "
- 1830 Approved by congress and signed by Pr.Jackson into Law, Authority for treaties with tribes and use whatever force necessary for the law
- Let me purchase the Indians land , Protect us form encroachment
- Andrew Jackson
- Enforcement of the law state legislature abolished tribal government Choctaw, Winter time struck while progression to "Territory"
- Choctaw Tribe
- Several Cheifs sign treaty to give up 7.5 million, Enforcement of dancing rabbit lead to over 1/4 death of Choctaw people trying to get to Indian Territory
- Chickasaw tribe were Cooperative with U.S. Government for their Extraction
- Chickasaw Tribe
- The Chickasaw tribe went on past the Indian territory settled in new Choctaw territory
- Federal Solders
- Creek Tribe uprising, significance of Choctaw terrible conditions , Federal troops stopped the resistance
- Ones who resisted either killed, 3,000 or chained up and sent to Indian Territory
- Creek Tribe
- Cherokee Tribe started to live as white men, dressing up, school, English, and even Cherokee nation constitution and treaties or set
- Treaties and boundaries were soon ignored when GOLD was discovered on their lands. Georgia set for removal. BUT after understatement of federal over state over tribes
- Georgia Vs Cherokee Tribe
- 4,000 tribal members died over the course of a 1,200 mile journey. into territory never seen by the tribes before.
- 1831- Troops sent to forcefully remove the Cherokee tribe across 9 states, 1/3 of the tribe died on this journey from disease,, famine, and warfare.
- TRAIL OF TEARS
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