Warm-up #7
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How had Jackson interacted with Native
Americans before the Indian Removal
Act?
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How does his treatment of Native
Americans reflect attitudes towards race
in the 1800s?
CH. 9.3 Assessment: 1a, 1b, 2b, & 2c
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1a. What Native American groups were affected by the
Indian Removal Act? Where were they relocated?
The Native American groups that were affected by
the Indian Removal Act were the Cherokee,
Choctaw, Creeks, Chickasaw, and Native Americans
east of the Mississippi River. They were relocated
into Indian Country in modern Oklahoma.
1b. Why did government officials want to relocate
Native Americans to the West?
Government officials wanted to relocate Native
Americans to the West because they wanted to
open the land the Native Americans had occupied to
settlement by American farmers. Gold was
dicovered in Georgia.
CH. 9.3 Assessment: 1a, 1b, 2b, & 2c
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2a. What was the Trail of Tears.
The Trail of Tears was the 800-mile forced march of
the Cherokee to Indian Country.
2b. Why did the state of Georgia want to relocate the
Cherokee, and what did the Cherokee do in response?
The state of Georgia wanted to relocate the
Cherokee because gold was discovered on their
land in Georgia. In response, the Cherokee said
they were an independent nation and that the
government of Georgia had no legal power over
their lands.
2c. What do you think of President Jackson’s refusal to
enforce the Worcester v. Georgia ruling?
I think that Jackson refused to enforce the ruling
because he wanted Cherokee land and gold for the
USA.
Jackson did not get along with
Indians
Jackson had fought against the Creek at
Horseshoe Bend
 Forced them to give up millions of acres
of land
 Felt that to solve the problem of clashes
between settlers and Native Americans,
the Native Americans had to move
across the Mississippi River
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Indian Removal Act
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Passed in 1832 by Congress
 Close vote in both House and Senate
Allowed Jackson to sign treaties with
Native Americans to have them move
west
 Did not say that the Indians could be
removed by force
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 Jackson forced them to move anyway
Trail of Tears
Describes the forced removal of several
Native American tribes
 Over 30,000 were forced to move
 Between 2,000-6,000 died on this forced
march
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 Journey was several hundred miles long
Murder is Murder
“Murder is murder and somebody must
answer, somebody must explain the streams
of blood that flowed in the Indian country in…
1838. Somebody must explain the fourthousand silent graves that mark the trail of
the Cherokees to their exile. I wish I could
forget it all, but the picture of six-hundred and
forty-five wagons lumbering over the frozen
ground with their cargo of suffering humanity
still lingers in my memory”
-Private John G. Burnett
2nd Regiment, Mounted Infantry
Cherokee Indian Removal 1838-39
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Artist’s depiction of Trail of Tears
Different perspective on Trail of Tears