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Some whites favored the displacement and dispossession of all Native Americans Others wished to convert Native Americans to Christianity, turn them into farmers and absorb them into the white culture -
Southeastern tribes- the Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, and Chickasaw- had begun to adopt the European culture of their white neighbors -
Congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830. Under this law, the federal government funded negotiation of treaties that would force the native Americans to move west -
Jackson pressured the Choctaw to sign a treaty that required them to move from the Mississippi -
He ordered U.S. troops to forcibly remove the Sauk and Fox from their lands in Illinois and Missouri -
He forced the Chickasaw to leave their lands in Alabama and Mississippi -
In Worcester v. Georgia, the Cherokee Nation finally won recognition as a distinct political community. The Court ruled that Georgia was not entitled to regulate the Cherokee nor to invade their lands -
In 1835, federal agents declared the minority who favored relocation the true representatives of the Cherokee Nation and promptly had them sign the Treaty of New Echota -
nearly 20,000 Cherokee still remained in the East, President Martin Van Buren ordered their forced removal. -
By 1838 nearly 20,000 Cherokee still remained in the East, President Martin Van Buren ordered their forced removal. -
Beginning in October and November of 1838, the Cherokee were sent off in groups of 1,000 each on the journey