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Congress passed the Indian Removal act, which forcibly removed more than thousands of American Indians from their homelands in the southeastern United States and due to that a lot of Native Americans lost their lives. -
The most important thing that the Indian Removal Act accomplished is said to be the promotion of the exercise of triple self-governing powers. -
The president of the U.S. (Andrew Jackson) forced the five civilized tribes to move to Indian territory so he could take all their land. -
The war resulted in the emancipation of 4 million enslaved African Americans. It also brought vast changes to the nation's financial system fundamentally altered the relationship between the states and the federal government and became modern history's first total war. -
Generally, all the treaties contained amnesty for all crimes committed against the U.S. prior to the treaties and included specific provisions of peace and friendship toward the U.S. -
The Dawes Act also known as the General Allotment Act, 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 parcelled out to individuals. -
The Oklahoma Land Rush in 1889 was the first land run into the Unassigned Lands of former Indian Territory, which had earlier been assigned to the Creek and Seminole people.