The Indian Removal Act by Andrea Moreno https://padlet.com/andreamoreno199/b2vy8i4bg2sa Andrea Moreno and Paulina Castellanos Period 2 en-us 2015-10-01 16:16:16 UTC 2023-01-21 02:03:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/47234917/7634860877c45d51662c7a33ce34f138bebce1e1/1eacba67625ba732039b76b580799a4b.jpg andreamoreno199 https://padlet.com/andreamoreno199/b2vy8i4bg2sa/wish/73240939 Bowes, John P. "Indian Removals - American History: Oxford Research Encyclopedias." Indian Removals - American History: Oxford Research Encyclopedias. N.p., Mar. 2015. Web. 01 Oct. 2015.

]]> 2015-10-01 16:25:47 UTC https://padlet.com/andreamoreno199/b2vy8i4bg2sa/wish/73240939 andreamoreno199 https://padlet.com/andreamoreno199/b2vy8i4bg2sa/wish/73241438 Time period: 1830

New York, The Granger Collection,. "The Trail of Tears." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 01 Oct. 2015.

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  • Congress passed with support of Jackson.

  • Federal government provided funds to negotiate treaties that would force the Native Americans to move west.

  • Cherokee tribe refused to move and fought in courts

  • ( Although the decision became the foundation of the principle of tribal sovereignty in the twentieth century, it did not protect the Cherokees from being removed from their ancestral homeland in the Southeast.)

  • Samuel Worcester, Minister in the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. 1825: sent to a Cherokee mission in Georgia, Became close to Cherokee leaders

    • -Georgia govt. created law that stopped “white persons” from living in Cherokee lands; Worcester and other missionaries refused to move, arrested 3 times for refusing

    • Worcester v. Georgia: Argued that the Cherokee were a sovereign and a separete nation

    • Ruling led to Trail of Tears, where American troops gathered the Cherokee, put them into camps and took them in groups to the western territory specified for them
    Garrison, Tim Alan. "Worcester v. Georgia (1832)." New Georgia Encyclopedia. Portland State University, 27 Apr. 2004. Web. 02 Oct. 2015.

    ]]>     2015-10-01 16:30:28 UTC https://padlet.com/andreamoreno199/b2vy8i4bg2sa/wish/73242325     Important people andreamoreno199 https://padlet.com/andreamoreno199/b2vy8i4bg2sa/wish/73338673

  • Major roles of people: Native Americans and Americans

  • President: Andrew Jackson
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