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Indian removal act

Indian removal act . Was this a good thing?. This was a good thing for us because we got more land t o make crops and goods. We also got to make new towns. Indian removal act paragraphs 1830’s natives.

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Indian removal act

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  1. Indian removal act

  2. Was this a good thing? This was a good thing for us because we got more land to make crops and goods. We also got to make new towns.

  3. Indian removal act paragraphs1830’s natives At the beginning of the 1830s, 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in the south. Their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. By the end of the decade, very few natives remained anywhere in the southeastern United States. Working on behalf of white settlers who wanted to grow cotton on the Indians’ land, the federal government 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. After demanding both political and military action on removing Native American Indians from the southern states of America in 1828, President Andrew Jackson signed this into law on May 28, 1829. Although it only gave the right to negotiate for their withdrawal from areas to the east of the Mississippi river and that relocation was supposed to be voluntary, all of the pressure was there to make this all but inevitable. All the tribal leaders agreed after Jackson’s landslide election victory in 1832.

  4. Sources Secondary sources "Trail of Tears." History.com. A&E Television Networks, 1996. Web. 17 Oct. 2013. Wiedner, Grant Nill. "Indian Removal Act." History Net: Where History Comes Alive. Wiedner History, n.d. Web. 18 Oct. 2013. Primary sources "Welcome to OurDocuments.gov." Welcome to OurDocuments.gov. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Oct. 2013. "History and Text of The Indian Removal Act of 1830." History and Text of The Indian Removal Act of 1830. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Oct. 2013.

  5. The one they call “sharp knife” Andrew Jackson was name “sharp knife” because he “cut harder than a regular knife.”

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