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?

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.

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 Jackson’s 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.

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

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

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

Murder is Murder  “Murder is murder and somebody must answer, somebody must explain the streams of blood that flowed in the Indian country in… 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

Artist’s depiction of Trail of Tears

Different perspective on Trail of Tears