by Rylie Donato

5. Representation of the Indian Removal Act

ryan_wood7255 — 2015-10-01 16:14:48 UTC

2. Excerpt

ryan_wood7255 — 2015-10-01 16:21:54 UTC

“CHAP. CXLVIII.–An Act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians residing in any of the states or territories, and for their removal west of the river Mississippi.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That it shall and may be lawful for the President of the United States to cause so much of any territory belonging to the United States, west of the river Mississippi, not included in any state or organized territory, and to which the Indian title has been extinguished, as he may judge necessary, to be divided into a suitable number of districts, for the reception of such tribes or nations of Indians as may choose to exchange the lands where they now reside, and remove there; and to cause each of said districts to be so described by natural or artificial marks, as to be easily distinguished from every other.”

This excerpt is important because it’s the first part of the actual Indian Removal Act document, and it explains that an act was passed by congress while Andrew Jackson was president, that said he had the authority to negotiate with Indian tribes in the South for them to leave to federal territory West of the Mississippi River in exchange for their homeland.

http://www.civics-online.org/library/formatted/texts/indian_act.html

3. Descritpion

rylie_donato8025 — 2015-10-01 16:25:34 UTC

The federal government supplied funds to negotiate treaties that forced Native Americans to move west. The act authorized the president to "grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state". http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Indian.html

4. Major Roles

rylie_donato8025 — 2015-10-01 16:26:17 UTC

The Indian Removal Act revolved about the Native Americans. The Cherokee were forced to walk 800 miles to the “Indian Territory” on foot. Congress with the support of President Andrew Jackson passed this act. The settlers/white citizens saw the Indians as an obstacle in the way of progress for the nation. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2959.html

1. Date: May 18, 1830

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7. Additional acts and comprimises

sabrina_guido246 — 2015-10-01 16:37:13 UTC

In 1830 congress passed the Indian Removal Acts, which forced the indians to move west. However there was one tribe that refused to move the, cherokee tribe fought the congress in a court. In 1832 the supreme court said that the state of georgia could not control the cherokee nation by law or invade their lands.

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https://www.google.com/search?q=indian+removal+act&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=667&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMI_OmprtihyAIVRJSICh3NSgRU#tbm=isch&q=indian+removal+act+territory+map&imgrc=M-Y2rpXssz0imM%3A

Works Cited

ryan_wood7255 — 2015-10-01 16:44:21 UTC

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ryan_wood7255 — 2015-10-01 16:58:57 UTC

https://www.google.com/search?q=indian+removal+act&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=667&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMI5YCq_N6hyAIVhzeICh38jwdP&dpr=1#imgrc=C5UR6hIlVSdcfM%3A

ryan_wood7255 — 2015-10-01 17:01:14 UTC

https://www.google.com/search?q=indian+removal+act&espv=2&biw=1366&bih=667&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAWoVChMI5YCq_N6hyAIVhzeICh38jwdP&dpr=1#imgrc=C5UR6hIlVSdcfM%3A

Works Cited

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