USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -They were never defeated, although some Seminoles migrated to Indian Territory. Other tribes were forced to move to reservations west of the Mississippi River, most famously the Cherokee whose relocation was called the “Trail of Tears".

Detailed explanation-2: -The Indian Removal Act of 1830 led to the relocation of Native American groups living east of the Mississippi. Although a few holdouts from several Southeastern tribes managed to elude authorities and remain in their ancestral homelands, the vast majority of Indians was removed –often forcibly.

Detailed explanation-3: -Jackson declared that removal would “incalculably strengthen the southwestern frontier.” Clearing Alabama and Mississippi of their Indian populations, he said, would “enable those states to advance rapidly in population, wealth, and power."

Detailed explanation-4: -To the Native American peoples of the river, the Mississippi was both highway and larder. On it they paddled their cottonwood dugouts and their bark canoes, and from it they took the fish that was a mainstay of their diet. Constant shifts of migration, local or large-scale, interwove tribal languages and cultures.