Indianremovalhf09

-The us was expanding to he south, however cherokee, creek, choctaw, chicasaw, seminole indians nations there. -andrew jackson commanded military forces to defeat faction of creek indians...creeks lost 22 acres -1818 the government punished seminole indians becaue they harbored fugitive slaves -jackson negoitated treaties which divested soutrhern tribes of their eastern land in exchange for the west land. - He only did nine out of 11 treaties' -divested-to deprive of rights or properties -treaties gave the us control of 3/4 of alabama and florida, and parts of Georgia, Tenessee, Mississippi, and north carolina -indians agreed because they didnt want harrassment of whites, they wanted appease government so they might be able to keep their land. -appease-to bring peace -only parts of tibes moved to new lands -1823 spreme court declared that the indians could occupy land, but not hold a title to those lands.---what tirgered this was that it violated the us' "right of occupancy" was getting in the way of "right of discovery" -the indians tried to resist this change by using Americcan practices suchs as large scale farming, slave holding, and western education -This earned them the "five civilized tribes" to coexist with settlers--caused white to be resentful and jealous -first seminole war lasted from 1817 to 1818--because they refused to leave their land -cherokee indians attempted to keep their land through legal rights such as a constitution that stated that they were a soveriegn nation--this led to Georgia bringing them to the supreme court whcih ruled against them -after taking office Jackson pushed the "Indian Removal Act" -The southeastern indians resisted and were forced by jackson to leave -the chotaw indians were the first to sign a removal treaty -the seminoles were forced in to signing it, but it only led to the second seminole war from 1835 to 1842 in the ent they moved to new territory -the third seminole war ended with govenment paying them to move -by 1837, the Jackson administration had removed 46,000 Native American people from their land of the Mississippi, and had secured treaties. Most members of the five southeastern nations had been relocated west, opening 25 million acres of land to white settlement and to slavery.

-