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INDIAN REMOVAL POLICY By 1820’s, about 100,000 Native Americans remained East of the Mississippi River. Major tribes were Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw,

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1 INDIAN REMOVAL POLICY By 1820’s, about 100,000 Native Americans remained East of the Mississippi River. Major tribes were Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole Cherokee had adopted white customs more than any other tribe

2 INDIAN REMOVAL POLICY Jackson had long supported a policy of moving Natives west of the Mississippi Jackson believed the government had the right to regulate where Indians could live He viewed them as conquered subjects

3 INDIAN REMOVAL POLICY Congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830 Called for government to negotiate treaties that would require Natives to relocate west

4 Trail of Tears Under the treaty, Natives would be moved to an area which is now Oklahoma and part of Kansas, Nebraska Jackson ignored a ruling by the Supreme Court calling the treaties invalid Over the fall and winter of 1838-1839 16,000 Cherokees were forced to relocate They were forced to march in the rain, sleet, and snow with minimal shelter, food, or clothing Approx. ¼ (4,000)of all the Cherokee on the journey died.

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