The Indian Removal Act
Would exchange land in the West for land in the East
What is Natives and the U.S.?
Cannot buy land from Native Americans
What is white Americans?
What did Johnson vs. M'nstosh do
protected natives from individual and state efforts to buy land from them.
President of 1829.
What is Andrew Jackson?
The “Five Civilized Tribes”.
What is the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole?
Will be forced out
What is Natives?
Had a basic right to live on their tribal lands
What is Native Americans?
How many Cherokee's did they capture?
16,000
This law instructed the president to make treaties with all Native American tribes and nations living east of the Mississippi River.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
Created a constitutional government to show they were not under U.S. control and could not legally be removed from their land.
What is the Cherokee Nation?
Would free up millions of acres for settlement
What is land exchange?
Really the property of the U.S. government
What is tribal lands?
How many Native Americans perished in the Trail of Tears?
4,000
Went to court to settle issues of Native American land ownership and sovereignty, or self-rule.
What is the Natives, potential white settlers, and the state government of Georgia?
Adopted European family structures and gender roles.
What is the Five Civilized Tribes?
Was open to settlers as the Territory of Oklahoma
What is Indian Territory?
Ruled that while Native Americans had a basic right to live on their tribal lands
What is supreme court?
What did Johnson vs. M'ntosh do?
protected natives from individual and state efforts to buy land from them.
Were a sovereign foreign nation with the same rights as Great Britain, France, or Spain.
What is the Cherokee?
Signed a removal treaty in 1830.
What is the Choctaw?
Relocated peacefully because they were too weak to resist
What is tribes in the Southeast?
Which Native American tribes were apart of the Five Civilized Tribes.
Cherokee, Creeks, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and the Seminole.
Native Americans who, long before the English colonists arrived, occupied part of what became Georgia.
What is Cherokee?
Continued to take over Native American land.
What is white settlers?
Did not officially represent their tribes.
What is small groups of Cherokee and Seminole?