The Indian Removal Act of 1830

Indian Removal Act The Indian Removal Act was passed in 1830 by Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson had very little sympathy for American Indians Jackson is the one who made the law but congress passed it A year later the congress passed a law that said that we were Indians had the right to keep their land Jackson was furious with this new law so, if the Indians didn’t leave their land they were met by the military ending with bad results After these troops started to come to the Indians homes the Indians declared war on the white Americans

Life After the Indian Removal Act was Passed The Choctaw’s were the first person to sign a treaty on the September of A couple of them stayed behind in Mississippi under the protection of the War Department, but got tired of the whites who wanted to take their land and left to Migrate west The Seminole signed a treaty in 1833, in which most of the people thought was illegitimate and did not leave, which resulted in the second Seminole war The Creeks did not immigrate and in 1832, they signed a treaty for which gave away most of their land to the whites while the remaining land that they lived on were to be protected by the whites, but they did not keep their promise and the white people cheated their land away

The Trail of Tears The Cherokee were tricked to sign an illegitimate treaty, thus letting them have 2 years to move voluntarily, or else they were forced out of the land. While only 2,000 migrated, 16,000 remained on their own land. The Government then sent in 7,000 troops to forcibly make the Cherokee move. They were not allowed to take any of their belongings with them, therefore letting the white men loot their belongings. Over 4,000 of the Cherokee died of disease, starvation, and the cold weather during their trip to move to the west. This was soon known as the Trail of Tears.

Black Hawk Black Hawk was the chief of the Sauk tribe He lived from 1767 to 1838 One of his lines he said “How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong and wrong like right.” He said this in 1832 During the war of 1812 he fought with the British In 1832 he led two hundred warriors and their families back to Mississippi He never got any help for other tribes which made him very mad So on August 2, 1832 while they were in Black Axe River, Wisconsin Black Hawk was kidnapped

Andrew Jackson He view the Native Americans as “Children in need of Guidance” Andrew Jackson commanded the U.S. military sources to defeat the Creek nation in He lived from 1767 to 1845 "It gives me pleasure to announce to Congress that the benevolent policy of the Government, steadily pursued for nearly thirty years, in relation to the removal of the Indians beyond the white settlements is approaching to a happy consummation. Two important tribes have accepted the provision made for their removal at the last session of Congress, and it is believed that their example will induce the remaining tribes also to seek the same obvious advantages." -Andrew Jackson's comments on the Indian removal act on December 6, 1830

Quotes from Native Americans and the White Americans about each other Native Americans “We are Indians, and don’t wish to be transformed into white men” –Shickellamy, New York, 1745 “You have your Laws and Customs, so have we” – Gachradodow, Pennsylvania, 1744 “In a little time white men will become dust as well as I” – Tomachichi, Georgia, 1736 White Americans “They are really better to us than we are to them” –John Lawson, North Carolina, 1709 “They keep their word, and hate lies” –Philip Georg Friedrich von Reck, Georgia, 1736 “These savages will give us trouble yet” –Francis Cample, Pennsylvania, 1740

Current lifestyle of Indians and Whites There are 14,500 Indians that are apart of the Sioux tribe that live on Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota In 2010 out of the 5.2 million Indians in the US 22% of them still live on tribal lands There are 28.2% live below the federal poverty line The percentages of the America Indians that live on reservations are bigger that are below the federal poverty line are 38% to 63% Right now there are 90,000 homeless or under housed American Indian Family By the time they turn 60, 76% of white dults have been in the government poverty data 41% of the nation’s poor are white

Our Opinion About The Indian Removal Act We think that the Indian Removal act is illegitimate and that the American’s did not deserve to chase them out of their own land, especially since it was theirs first. Even now, they are still treated unfairly because the majority of them are poor. The Native Americans currently do not have good homes, jobs, or a proper education while the White Americans do.

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