What was Jackson's policy about native tribes?

What was his motivation for his policy?

How did his supporters feel about his policy?

How did the Seminole tribe resist being moved?

How did the Cherokee tribe resist being moved?

What did the Cherokee tribe develop by the 1830s?

What was John Marshall's decision in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia?

How did Jackson respond?

Why did federal troops come to Georgia?

What was the outcome of the Treaty of New Echota?

How did the Cherokee tribe split?

How many Cherokee marched on the Trail of Tears?

What happened to the Cherokee who traveled on the trail?

The Indian Removal Act was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy.

ackson believed tribes should be removed from ancestral lands.

He wanted to make room for settlers and those who would make profit from land.

Most supporters in the West and South favored this policy.

They fought in a war that lasted until the 1840s.

They took legal action and sued the state government of Georgia.

A written language

Georgia had no jurisdiction over the Cherokees and no claim to their lands

He disagreed with Marshall and refused to enforce it.

To remove the tribes from their land forcefully

Some leaders accepted Western land and payment to leave their land in Georgia.

Some disagreed with the Treaty and resisted leaving their ancestral land.

20,000 Cherokees

many perished and others were left to survive in a completely new land