 Friendly to natives bc he needed them to help fight during war  But his support came from white voters  He pushed for Indian Removal Act (1830)  It called for the relocation of the natives to the western territories

 Creek - hunting grounds gone, begging for food  In 1832 the Treaty of Washington was created: Creek gave up 5 million acres, promised 2 million acres, safety  Immediately broken, the gov’t burned homes, natives killed  Next 15 years due to disease and fighting the Creek were weak, easily removed.

 Cherokees & white settlers gotten along okay  Cherokee lived happily in mtns, whites didn’t want to live there  Gold was found in Dahlonega, GA, right in the center of Cherokee land.  GA experienced the first GOLD RUSH in the US. Natives kicked out of GA

 Religious groups - what we were doing to the Cherokee was wrong.  Reverend Samuel Worcester supported natives  Worcester fought the GA gov’t all the way to U.S. Supreme Court.  Supreme Court supported Worchester, the President did not, natives were removed.

 U.S. gov’t arrived in New Echota to remove the Cherokee.  Grouped them, forced them west  Cherokee forced to walk from north GA to present-day Oklahoma  1/3+ never made it to Oklahoma

 The Legend of the Cherokee Rose.  No better symbol exists of the pain and suffering of the Trail Where They Cried than the Cherokee Rose. The mothers of the Cherokee grieved so much that the chiefs prayed for a sign to lift the mother's spirits and give them strength to care for their children. From that day forward, a beautiful new flower, a rose, grew wherever a mother's tear fell to the ground. The rose is white, for the mother's tears. It has a gold center, for the gold taken from the Cherokee lands, and seven leaves on each stem that represent the seven Cherokee clans that made the journey. To this day, the Cherokee Rose prospers along the route of the "Trail of Tears".  The Cherokee Rose is now the official flower of the State of Georgia.