1. 11.1 Indian Removal

2. Native Americans of the Southeast
Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek.
-Lived in parts of Mississippi, Alabama, N. Georgia, N.W. North Carolina, S. Tennessee.
Seminoles of Florida, blend of Creek and escaped African American slaves.
Most adopted white customs, were farmers or lived in towns.

3. Cherokee Farmers, some owned businesses.
Educated, some spoke, read, and could write in English.
-Sequoyah, learned leader invented their own alphabet.
Some converted to Christianity.

4. Conflict Over Land Native Americans lived on fertile farm land.
Most policies wished for voluntary movement or assimilation (blending of cultures).
Treaties signed asked Native Americans to move off their lands.
By the 1820’s most state laws forced Native Americans off their land.

5. Support for Native Americans
Supreme Court decision; Worcester v. Georgia, 1832.
-Most treaties guaranteed certain territories to Native Americans, so Georgia couldn’t remove them.
-Andrew Jackson said, “[the court] made their decision, now let [them] enforce it.”
Indian Remove Act of 1830.
-exchanged their land for land west of the Mississippi River.

6. Trail of Tears 800-mile trip west made on foot.
Native Amer. robbed by everyone, 30% die from exposure, disease, and starvation.

7. The use of the federal troops to assist removal.
Five Native American nations forced to move, over 100, 000 people.
Seminoles fought three wars, but ultimately moved.

8. Comic Strips Supreme Court Cases -Indian Removal Act 1830
-Dartmouth v. Woodward
-Trail of Tears
-McCulloch v. Maryland
Henry Clay’s American System
-Gibbons v. Ogden
-Dumping
-Worcester v. Georgia
-National Bank
Andrew Jackson’s Presidency
-Infrastructure
-Democrats
-Protective Tariff
-Spoils System
Monroe Doctrine
-Veto the National Bank
-Relations with Spain, Florida
-Nullification
-Mexico
Indian Removal
-Central and South America
-Cherokee Nation
-Monroe Doctrine
-Seqouyah