Trail Of Tears / Indian Removal Act Flashcards
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Why did the people want the Native American’s land?
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Working on behalf of white settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indians’ land, the federal government (Andrew Jackson) forced them to leave their homelands and walk thousands of miles to a specially designated “Indian territory” across the Mississippi River. This difficult and sometimes deadly journey is known as the Trail of Tears.
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What happened in the Indian Removal Act?
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At the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida–land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. By the end of the decade, very few natives remained anywhere in the southeastern United States.
