Tyrese Granger Reseach Paper by Tyrese Granger

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Along with the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles, the Cherokee

made up what white settlers referred to as the "Five Civilized Tribes

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As much like white Americans as possible by encouraging them convert to Christianity, learn to speak and read English, and adopt European-style economic practices such as the individual ownership of land and other property.

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But their land, located in parts of Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, Florida and Tennessee, was valuable, and it grew to be more coveted as white settlers flooded the region.

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State governments joined in this effort to drive Native Americans out of the South.

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In 1836, the federal government drove the Creeks from their land for the last time: 3,500 of the 15,000 Creeks who set out for Oklahoma

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In 1907, Oklahoma became a state and Indian territory was gone for good.

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http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/trail-of-tears

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