Trail of Tears

In the early 1830's, almost one-hundred and twenty thousand Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land. At the end of the decade indians were scarce in southeast America. The United States always taking the side of the white settlers, decided they needed more land to grow cotton. American settlers and govt. forced the remaining Indians to walk thousands of miles to what they could finally call Indian territory. They did this all legally by creating the Indian Removal act. which the Indians had no say in anyways. The whole Cherokee tribe was moved to the new Indian territory. Some Indians however refused to stay in there territory and moved back "home" where they would attack the white settlers along the Mississippi. This was lead by Black Hawk so now it is referred to as the Black Hawk war. Some Indians could not be removed like the ones in Florida, it took the U.S. two tries to remove the indians. The second time they did succeed but it costed the U.S. millions of dollars and thousands of lives. Otherwise known as the Second Seminole War.


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