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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Day 121, 122 Indian Removal Act & Trail of Tears

Day 121 & 122 Tuesday February 21 & 22, 2012

Indian Removal Act Web Quest and 6 x 6

6 Vocabulary

1. Five Civilized Tribes: the collective name for the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole tribes of Indians who, in spite of their adaptation to European culture, were deported to the Indian Territory from 1830 to 1840

2. controversial: A prolonged public fight concerning a matter of opinion

3. removal treaties: the specific group of treaties for which Andrew Jackson signed giving land and money to the Indians but making them move from Georgia to farther west.

4. voluntary: Acting or done without compulsion or obligation

5. ceded: To yield or formally surrender to one another

6. emigration: To leave a country or region to settle into another


6 Sentences

1. The Indian Removal act was strongly supported in the South where the states were eager to gain access to lands inhabited by the Five Civilized Tribes.

2. The Indian Removal act was controversial because of the tactics used.

3. There were many removal treaties created by Andrew Jackson because there were so many Native American tribes.

4. The Indian Removal Treaties were said to be voluntary but they really weren’t because when Andrew Jackson became President, he forced them to move.

5. The Indian Tribes in Georgia ceded their land to the Americans.

6. The Indians were not immigrants, but they were forced to emigrate by immigrants.


6 Facts/Details

1. Some Americans considered the Native Americans “obstacles” to settlement

2. Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal act on May 26, 1830

3. Jackson negotiated nine out of eleven treaties

4. Only a small number of Creeks, Cherokee, and Choctaw actually moved to the new land.

5. To get out of the Removal act Indians adapted some of the American cultures such as agriculture, westward education and slaves.

6. In 1829 Andrew Jackson wanted to pass the Indian Removal Act but Jeremiah Ebert was against it

6 Questions

1. What were some of the reasons white settlers wanted the Indians’ lands? A: Because they thought it would be great for agriculture and they wanted to make it officially a state. Another reason is that the Indians were trying to coexist to American living to keep their land, but that just made the Americans more jealous. In Georgia, the Americans have discovered gold so they wanted the Indians out because of that too.

2. Which states were secured by the treaties negotiated by Andrew Jackson from 1814-1824? A: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, and North Carolina

3. How did Jackson justify the removal of the Seminole Indians? What was he punishing them for? A: The Seminole Indians were keeping Fugitive slaves in northern Florida, the Seminole territory. The Seminoles broke out in to war to protect their land. Andrew Jackson punished them for this 

4. Summarize the Supreme Court decision in 1823 about Native Americans’ “right to occupancy” A: In 1823 the Supreme Court handed down a decision which stated that Indians could occupy lands within the United States, but could not hold title to those lands. This was called the rights of occupancy

5. What were some of the non-violent ways the Native Americans tried to keep their land? A: The Indians tried to coexist with some of the American ways.

6. By 1837, how many Native American people were removed by Andres Jackson’s policies from the southeast? A: about 46,000



6 Figures

1. Andrew Jackson: Andrew Jackson, from Tennessee, was a forceful proponent of Indian removal. In 1814 he commanded the U.S. military forces that defeated a faction of the Creek nation. In their defeat, the Creeks lost 22 million acres of land in southern Georgia and central Alabama. The U.S. acquired more land in 1818 when, spurred in part by the motivation to punish the Seminoles for their practice of harboring fugitive slaves, Jackson's troops invaded Sp

2. Congressman Davey Crockett: “King of the Wild frontier” Congressman Crockett vehemently opposed many of the policies of President Andrew Jackson, most notably the Indian Removal Act.

 3. Sequoyah: Was a Cherokee Indian silversmith who in the early 19th century, created a form of writing that the Cherokee could understand to help coexist with American culture. This made the Americans jealous, but the Indians could communicate now through letters

 4.Chief Justice John Marshall: The Chief Justice of the Supreme court at this time, Who rejected Robert Wirt’s argument about the Indians being a sovereign nation, he also rejected Jackson’s argument on the Indians being subject to state law. He clearly stated the Indians as “Domestic Dependent Nations”

5. Sharp Knife: The Cherokee name for Andrew Jackson

6. Missionaries: A member of a religious group


6 Key dates—Indentify & summarize

1. May 28, 1830: The signing of the Indian Removal Act. Not long after Andrew Jackson became President, he passed the law of the Indian Removal Act on May 28, 1830

2. March 18, 1831: The day the John Marshall made his decision stating that the Indians were “Domestic Dependent Nations”

3. Sept. 27, 1830: The first removal treaty signed after the removal act on September 27, 1830 by Dancing Rabbit Creek, and Choctaw

4. 1835: Treaty of __New Echota_________

5. 1835-1842: The second Seminole War


Trail of Tears Web Quest:

1.       Follow this link and watch PBS video Part 3 “We Shall Remain”: http://video.pbs.org/video/1101800846/

A.      Write a good long paragraph about what you learned and how you felt after watching the video:

In Georgia the Cherokee Indians started off with over 200,000 Native American people in their tribe. Shortly after the War of 1812, it decreased down to 17,000. The families who were Cherokee blooded picked up the ways of the whites creating a new civilization. The Americans believed that they could settle in Georgia which was Indian Territory and belonged to the Five Civilized Tribes. When Andrew Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act, he gave the Indians a period of time to pack up all of their stuff and start heading west down the Trail of Tears. The Cherokee Indians did not leave by their “deadline” so the American army forced them to leave. It was an awful trip down the trail of tears and many MANY people died during the hard circumstances of the winters. The trail of tears is not something our country should be proud of.




2.       Follow this link and read website:  http://www.cherokee-nc.com/index.php?page=62

A.      List 6 facts & Details you learned:

1. More than 17,000 Cherokee Indians traveled along the Trail of Tears about 170 years ago.

2. The Trail of Tears is about 1,200 miles long from North Dakota, to Oklahoma.

3. The Cherokee buried 14 or 15 of their people at every stopping place along the trail

4. Many of the Cherokee Indians faced the Trail of Tears during the bitter winter of 1832

5. 5,000 horses were used on the Trail of Tears and half of them died

6. The Creek Indians were sent to through Tennessee


A. look through the images and choose 6 that best represent what you learned about the Trail of Tears (Save As and Copy & Paste here)






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