1 / 8

The Trail Of Tears

The Trail Of Tears. By: Alvaro Ramos & Ivan Magana. The Trails of Tears. The Trails of Tears was the forcible relocation of Native Americans, Cherokee, Creech, Seminole, and Choctaw. It removed South States and taken into new Indian lands. (Oklahoma) Approximately 4,000 Indians died.

everly
Download Presentation

The Trail Of Tears

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The Trail Of Tears By: Alvaro Ramos & Ivan Magana

  2. The Trails of Tears • The Trails of Tears was the forcible relocation of Native Americans, Cherokee, Creech, Seminole, and Choctaw. • It removed South States and taken into new Indian lands. (Oklahoma) • Approximately 4,000 Indians died. • The whites wanted the Indians land for gold.

  3. President Jackson • When President Jackson began to negotiate with the Indians, he gave them a guarantee of perpetual autonomy in the West as the strongest incentive to emigration. • The Five tribes gave all of their Eastern lands to the United States and agreed to migrate beyond the Mississippi by the end of the 1830's.

  4. Indian Removal Act of 1830 • The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced the removal of Native Americans throughout the United States. • By the spring of 1838 almost all tribes east of the Mississippi had been relocated further west or destroyed in battle. • In Georgia the Cherokee tried to desperately hold onto their "Enchanted Land."

  5. Indian Removal Act con… • The Federal agents accomplished this by bribery, trickery, and intimidation. • All of the treaties signed by the Indians agreed to the terms of the removal guarantees that. • The Indians territory should be perpetual and that no government other than their own should be erected over them without their consent.

  6. The New Echota Treaty • The Echota Treaty gave up Cherokee lands but gave them land in western territories. • Many of the Treaty Party Indians were killed by their own tribe for giving up their lands.

  7. New Echota Treaty cont… • 3,000 Cherokees were on boats to be relocated. • Over 14,000 Indians were forced to walk 1,200 miles through Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas to reach their new home.

  8. MLA • http://www.studyworld.com/indian_removal_act_of_1830.htm Date of access:9/3/10 • http://www.powersource.com/cocinc/history/trail.htm Date of access:9/3/10 • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears Date of access: 9/4/10

More Related