WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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The US was getting crowded and American citizens wanted the land of the Southeast that belonged to the Indians.
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The US wanted to make sure that the Indians had a place to preserve their culture.
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The US wanted to give the Indians some free land.
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The law forced the Native Americans to resettle or move onto reservations in the west. More than 4, 000 Native Americans died when they were forced to march to reservations in Oklahoma. This long, sad journey was called the Trail of Tears.
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Detailed explanation-1: -More than 46, 000 Native Americans were forced-sometimes by the U.S. military-to abandon their homes and relocate to “Indian Territory ” that eventually became the state of Oklahoma. More than 4, 000 died on the journey-of disease, starvation, and exposure to extreme weather.
Detailed explanation-2: -Implementation. The Removal Act paved the way for the forced expulsion of tens of thousands of American Indians from their land into the West in an event widely known as the “Trail of Tears, ” a forced resettlement of the Indian population.
Detailed explanation-3: -Losing Indian lands resulted in a loss of cultural identity, as tribes relied on their homelands as the place of ancestral burial locations and sacred sites where religious ceremonies were performed. Without their lands, nations lost their identities, and their purpose.
Detailed explanation-4: -To achieve his purpose, Jackson encouraged Congress to adopt the Removal Act of 1830. The Act established a process whereby the President could grant land west of the Mississippi River to Indian tribes that agreed to give up their homelands.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Indian Removal Act was signed into law in 1830. The law granted unsettled lands west of the Mississippi to Native Americans in exchange for their land with pre-existing borders. The treaty traded Cherokee land east of the Mississippi River for $5 million.