Table of contents What Happened after the American Revolution Why Did White People want American Indians Land Whose idea was the Indian Removal Act What was the Indian Removal Act of 1830 10 Did the Act allow American Indians to stay behind 12 How Did the Indian Removal Act Pass 14 What Did the Act Provide American Indians 16 How Did the Southeastern American Indians Respond 18 Who opposed the Indian Removal Act 20 Who led the American Indian Resistance 22 What Hardships occurred on the Journey Westward 24 How is the Indian Removal Act Viewed Today 26 Fact Sheet 28 Glossary 30 For More Information 31 Index 32 About the Author 32
What Happened after the American Revolution The United States had won its The American Indians who held this land were from several different independence from Great Britain in 1783 The new country started to spread out beyond the original 13 colonies In 1803 the United States bought a large area of land from France This was called the tribes They were mostly part of the Cherokee Choctaw Creek Chickasaw and Seminole tribes They were called the Civilized Tribes by the US government Louisiana Purchase The land was because some had taken on the west of the Mississippi River It stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada At the time many people ways of the white settlers Some of the American Indians in the South could read and write in believed settlement would be driven by an idea that came to be known as Manifest Destiny They felt that white settlers were destined to inhabit North America from coast to Number of so called Civilized Tribes in the United States in the coast and from north to south But those who wanted to settle early 1800s the Deep South were met with resistance Approximately 60 000 Many American Indians lived in the southern United States American Indians lived in the South in the early 19th century And they possessed nearly 20 million acres 8 million ha Some members of these tribes could read and write in English The white settlers wanted to take over the land of these tribes
CHEROKEE WRITING Sequoyah was a Cherokee leader He was convinced that the Atal only way the Cherokees could to survive was to have a written language He began his work in 1809 By 1821 he had developed a way to convert the language into 86 symbols This greatly increased the Cherokees ability to communicate over long distances Indians Some American English Some had Indians fought back Sequoyah displays their own written The battles caused the Cherokee constitutions Some bloodshed on both alphabet owned slaves Many sides The white settlers had given up wearing had superior weapons so their traditional clothing they usually won the battles They dressed as the settlers did The Cherokees published their own newspaper called the Cherokee Phoenix It was written in both the GO TO THE SOURCE Cherokee language and English To read the full text of the White people in Georgia Alabama and Mississippi wanted to claim Indian Removal Act go to www 12storyLibrary com primary the American Indians land as their own They wanted the land so they could grow crops especially cotton These settlers often struck out violently against the American
