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White settlers either favored the displacement and dispossession of all Native Americans. Others wished to convert Native Americans to Christianity, farmers, and absorb them into whit culture -
Southeastern tribes - Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole, Creek and Chickasaw began to adopt European culture. They lived in Georgia, North and south Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee Land that the whites wanted -
Indian Removal act. under this act the federal government funded the 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 Mississippi. -
Jackson ordered U.S. troops to forcefully remove the Sauk and Fox from their lands in Illinois and Missouri. -
Jackson forced the Chickasaw to leave their lands in Alabama and Mississippi. -
The Cherokee nation won recognition as a district political community. The court ruled that Georgia was not entitled to regulate the Cherokee nor to invade their lands -
Federal agents declared the minority who favored relocation the representatives of the Cherokee nation. The treaty of New Echota gave the last 8 million acres of Cherokee land to the federal government for $5 million and land west of Mississippi river. -
Cherokee still remained in the east so president Martin Van Buren ordered them to be removed. U.S. troops under command rounded them up and drove them to camps. -
In October and November Cherokee were sent of in groups of 1,000 on an 800 mile trip partly by steamboat and train but mostly by foot.