USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -If you were an American Indian leader, and you refused to move off of your land, what’s the most likely thing that would happen to you? The U.S. government would leave you alone.

Detailed explanation-2: -Relocation was either voluntary or forced. Army and militia patrols supervised the tribes’ westward journey. It is estimated that between 1830 and 1840 the government relocated more than 70, 000 Native Americans, thousands of whom died along what came to be known as the Trail of Tears.

Detailed explanation-3: -American Indians previously occupied the west and viewed settlers as invaders. Many heroic American Indians made courageous efforts to save their people.

Detailed explanation-4: -The route of the Oregon Trail was littered with cast off belongings as families struggled to lighten the load and save the health of their draft animals. The most dreaded danger was cholera. It could spread rapidly among wagon trains.

Detailed explanation-5: -On September 9, 1850 – California entered the Union. With miners flooding the hillsides and devastating the land, California’s Indians found themselves deprived of their traditional food sources and forced by hunger to raid the mining towns and other white settlements.