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The indian removal act is the authorize the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. -
the Trail of Tears was the forced westward migration of American Indian tribes from the South and Southeast. Land grabs threatened tribes in the early 1800s. -
The civil war was America's bloodiest and most divisive conflict, pitting the Union Army against the Confederate States of America. -
The Reconstruction Treaties was a amnesty for all crimes committed against the United States prior to the treaties. It included specific provisions of peace and friendship toward the United States. -
The law authorized the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe, into small allotments to be parceled out to individuals. -
The oklahoma land rush was men and women rushed to claim homesteads or to purchase lots in one of the many new towns that sprang into existence overnight. -
The act granted a new degree of autonomy to Native Americans in the United States, giving them greater control over their lands and allowing them to form legally recognized tribal governments.