10-3: Indian Removal
1) Indian Removal Act
a) 1830 under pressure from ________________, Congress authorized the
removal of Native Americans living East of the Mississippi River, known as
the ____________ ____________ _________
b) Bureau of Indian Affairs was a ________________ agency created to manage
Indian removal
c) Indian Territories in present day _______________ specifically assigned to
place Native Americans
d) Beginning of Resistance
i) Choctaw
(1) Choctaw were the __________ to be sent to Indian Territory
(2) Forced to sign the Treaty of ________ Rabbit Creek giving the U.S. 7.5
million acres of their land
(3) Moved during _______ _________with not enough food or supplies –
about ¼ died of cold, disease, and starvation
ii) Creek
(1) News of the Choctaw’s hardship caused other tribes such as the Creek
Indians to _______ removal
(2) The U.S. retaliated by capturing 14,500 of them moving most in
___________ to the Indian Territory
(i) This lead others such as the _______________ tribe to negotiate a
treaty with better suppliers on their trips to the Indian Territory
2) Indian Resistance - Cherokee
a) Indians thought they could _________ removal if adopted culture
i) Missionaries invited to set up ___________ to learn to read and write in
__________
ii) Cherokee developed own _____________ and ______________, Sequoya
b) When _____________ was discovered in their native land of Georgia, these
attempts could not save them from removal
c) Worcester v. Georgia
i) Court ruled that the ____________ nation was a distinct community in
which the laws of Georgia had no _________
(1)
Only the ____________ government had power to remove Indians
ii) Georgia _____________ the ruling and Jackson took no action stating:
d) This was a violation of a Presidential ____________, yet much of Congress
and citizens did _______ protest
e) Troops began _______________ Indians in 1938
f) The ________________ forced march became known as the Trail of Tears
due to disease, hunger, harsh weather leading to over 18,000 deaths
3) Indian Resistance - Fox, Sauk, and Seminole
a) Chief Black Hawk of the Fox and Sauk Indians resisted removal in lands in
______________
b) In ____________, Seminole leader Osceola resisted with force leading to the
Second Seminole War
i) Even after some _________ Seminole were removed and many more were
killed eventually the U.S. gave up the fight leaving the Indians to live in
area
c) Few Indians escaped removal, but a few ______________ live East of the
Mississippi
Instructions: These are two quotes describing the same event. The difference is that each quote is coming from a
different perspective. Read the two quotes and answer the questions below ON A SEPARATE PIECE OF PAPER!
"Toward the aborigines of the country no one can indulge a more friendly feeling than myself, or would go further in
attempting to reclaim them from their wandering habits and make them a happy, prosperous people." -- Andrew
Jackson announcing the Indian Removal Act 1830
"I saw the helpless Cherokees arrested and dragged from their homes, and driven at the bayonet point into the
stockades. And in the chill of a drizzling rain on an October morning I saw them loaded like cattle or sheep into six
hundred and forty-five wagons and started toward the west....On the morning of November the 17th we encountered a
terrific sleet and snow storm with freezing temperatures and from that day until we reached the end of the fateful
journey on March the 26th 1839, the sufferings of the Cherokees were awful. The trail of the exiles was a trail of
death. They had to sleep in the wagons and on the ground without fire. And I have known as many as twenty-two of
them to die in one night of pneumonia due to ill treatment, cold and exposure..." -- Private John G. Burnett, Mounted
Infantry, Cherokee Indian Removal 1838-39
1. What is perspective?
2. What are the two quotes describing?
3. What words does Jackson use to describe the event?
4. How was this time in history different than today? How would this help to explain how Jackson saw the event?
5. What words does Private John G. Burnett use?
6. How do these quotes make you feel?
7. There are still Cherokee Indians living in the United States today. What do you think their perspective on what
happened might differ from yours?