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Mid 1800s

Mid 1800s. 1830  - President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act into law.  1838  - The Cherokee are forced to march from North Carolina to Oklahoma. Thousands of them die along the way in what will be known as the Trail of Tears. . http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwBXOxQqkGc.

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Mid 1800s

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  1. Mid 1800s • 1830 - President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act into law.  • 1838 - The Cherokee are forced to march from North Carolina to Oklahoma. Thousands of them die along the way in what will be known as the Trail of Tears.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwBXOxQqkGc

  2. Mid 1800s • 1851- Fort Laramie treaties were signed with the Plains tribes outlining their territories and outlining passages through territories for settlers in exchange for payments to the tribes. • 1855 - The Nez Perce sign an agreement with the U.S. Government which would later be rescinded when gold was discovered on the Nez Perce land. 

  3. Late 1800s • 1862 - The Homestead Act is passed by the U.S. government opening Indian land in the Midwest to settlers.  • 1864 - Sand Creek Massacre takes place under US Cavalry led by Colonel John Chivington when he slaughters at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0UF71_-HZY

  4. Late 1800s • 1876 - George Custer and the U.S. Army is soundly defeated at the Battle of Little Big Horn by Native Americans led by Sitting Bull in Custer’s Last Stand. • 1887 - Congress enacts the Dawes Act which carves existing Indians’ lands into 160 acre parcels to be distributed to individual Native American heads of households. • 1890 - The Wounded Knee Massacre takes place in South Dakota. Two hundred Native American women and children are killed.  

  5. Vs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFjdz2bRHRg

  6. Picture Study • http://www.history.com/topics/american-indian-wars/photos#

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