Indian Removal Act

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Indian Removal Act
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Bell Ringer

• Review What was Worcester vs. Georgia all about?
• Take out a piece of paper, pg. 30 INDIAN REMOVAL
  ACT

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Housekeeping

• Binder Checks on Friday same format as usual
• See me after school today if you want help
  organizing your binder (room 310, until about
  4pm)
• Grades pulled early next week

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Objective

• Explain what the Indian Removal Act was and
  analyze excerpts from the document. You will do
  this by reading from the original text as well as
  applying knowledge already learned in class

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Worcester vs. Georgia

• Cherokee sued the government of Georgia for
  taking their land
• Worcester vs. Georgia - Supreme Court rules
  Georgias actions are illegal and that the
  Cherokee can stay

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Indian Removal Act (pg. 30)

• Signed into law by Andrew Jackson on May 28,
  1830, authorizing the president to grant
  unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in
  exchange for Indian lands within existing state
  borders.

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Indian Removal Act (pg. 30)

• A few tribes went peacefully (and many
  voluntarily), but many in Southeast resisted the
  relocation policy
• Poor mistreatment from the whites
• Jackson was patronizing

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Indian Removal Act

• Seminoles and Creeks resisted
• Cherokees tricked, Chickasaws eventually went
  too
• Removed 46,000 Natives/spent 10 million to do so

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Reading

• Read the clauses (what is a clause?) and answer
  questions. We will go over at the end of class.
• Put answers in your own words.

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Exit Slip

• What was the Indian Removal Act all about?
• Was it right for the US government to remove the
  indigenous people from their lands? Why or why
  not?

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Trail of Tears

• During the fall and winter of 1838 and 1839, the
  Cherokees were forcibly moved west by the United
  States government. Approximately 4,000 Cherokees
  died on this forced march, which became known as
  the "Trail of Tears.

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