https://padlet.com/cbronowich/oyw85eow0gkk en-us 2016-12-19 18:12:29 UTC 2016-12-20 15:33:37 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Tent.png https://padlet.com/cbronowich/oyw85eow0gkk/wish/144472418 The federal government forced them to leave their homelands.]]> 2016-12-20 15:05:21 UTC https://padlet.com/cbronowich/oyw85eow0gkk/wish/144472418 https://padlet.com/cbronowich/oyw85eow0gkk/wish/144472485 stole livestock, burn and looted houses and towns , squatted on land that didn't belong too them, and the federal government forced them to leave their homeland.]]> 2016-12-20 15:05:42 UTC https://padlet.com/cbronowich/oyw85eow0gkk/wish/144472485 https://padlet.com/cbronowich/oyw85eow0gkk/wish/144472556 Several states passed laws limiting Native American sovereignty and rights and encroaching on their territory.]]> 2016-12-20 15:06:01 UTC https://padlet.com/cbronowich/oyw85eow0gkk/wish/144472556 https://padlet.com/cbronowich/oyw85eow0gkk/wish/144472570 State governments joined in this effort to drive Native Americans out of the South. 
The Cherokee people were divided:
Native Americans had been driven off of their land in the southeastern states and forced to move across the Mississippi to Indian territory.]]> 2016-12-20 15:06:04 UTC https://padlet.com/cbronowich/oyw85eow0gkk/wish/144472570 https://padlet.com/cbronowich/oyw85eow0gkk/wish/144472642 Andrew Jackson had long been an advocate of what he called “Indian removal.” As an Army general, he had spent years leading brutal campaigns against the Creeks in Georgia and Alabama and the Seminoles in Florida–campaigns that resulted in the transfer of hundreds of thousands of acres of land from Indian nations to white farmers.]]> 2016-12-20 15:06:25 UTC https://padlet.com/cbronowich/oyw85eow0gkk/wish/144472642 https://padlet.com/cbronowich/oyw85eow0gkk/wish/144472664 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. Several states passed laws limiting Native American sovereignty and rights and encroaching on their territory.]]> 2016-12-20 15:06:34 UTC https://padlet.com/cbronowich/oyw85eow0gkk/wish/144472664 https://padlet.com/cbronowich/oyw85eow0gkk/wish/144473325 They stole livestock; burned and looted houses and towns;, and squatted on land that did not belong to them.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.]]> 2016-12-20 15:10:03 UTC https://padlet.com/cbronowich/oyw85eow0gkk/wish/144473325 https://padlet.com/cbronowich/oyw85eow0gkk/wish/144473773 State governments joined in this effort to drive Native Americans out of the South. Several states passed laws limiting Native American sovereignty and rights and encroaching on their territory.]]> 2016-12-20 15:12:27 UTC https://padlet.com/cbronowich/oyw85eow0gkk/wish/144473773