USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Removal resistance: Second Seminole War in Florida Everglades. The Second Seminole War, also known as the Florida War, consists of a series of armed resistance by the Seminoles to forced removal. It is regarded as “the longest and most costly of the Indian conflicts of the United States” (Lancaster, 1994).

Detailed explanation-2: -When the U.S., enforcing the Removal Act, coerces many Seminoles to march to Indian Territory (which is now known as Oklahoma), some Seminoles and Creeks in Alabama and Florida hide in swamps to avoid forced removal. The descendants of those who escaped have governments and reservations in Florida today.

Detailed explanation-3: -A small group of Seminoles was coerced into signing a removal treaty in 1833, but the majority of the tribe declared the treaty illegitimate and refused to leave. The resulting struggle was the Second Seminole War, which lasted from 1835 to 1842.

Detailed explanation-4: -Run-ins with white settlers were becoming more regular by the turn of the century. Settlers wanted Indian land and their former slaves back. After passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830, the U.S. government attempted to relocate Seminoles to Oklahoma, causing yet another war–the Second Seminole War.

Detailed explanation-5: -In 1823 under the treaty of Moultrie Creek, they gave up their claim which resulted in reducing their land to 4 millions acres, with no access to their cultivated lands, game, and either ocean. Then President Jackson in 1830 signed the Indian Removal Act requiring the relocation of the Seminoles to Oklahoma.