USA HISTORY

JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850

JACKSONS INDIAN REMOVAL ACT OF 1830

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
By 1830, most of the Native American Tribes in the ____ had been sent away, broken up or destroyed.
A
Northeast
B
Northwest
C
Southeast
D
Southwest
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -After the Revolution, many of these peoples moved to Canada; others remained in New York state, and some (predominantly Oneida) moved to present-day Wisconsin. Like native peoples farther east, those of the upper Great Lakes area were greatly affected by the fur trade.

Detailed explanation-2: -They included the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Huron. The Tuscarora, who also spoke an Iroquoian language, lived in the coastal hills of present-day North Carolina and Virginia.

Detailed explanation-3: -People began settling in the Northeast region of North America thousands of years ago, after their ancestors traveled east from Alaska, around the Great Lakes, and eventually ended up along the Atlantic coast.

Detailed explanation-4: -Indigenous people both north and south were displaced, died of disease, and were killed by Europeans through slavery, rape, and war. In 1491, about 145 million people lived in the western hemisphere. By 1691, the population of indigenous Americans had declined by 90–95 percent, or by around 130 million people.

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