4NativeAmericanWhy

__**Why:**__

The United States was growing and expanding. On the southern eastern coast the white settlers wanted to expand to grow cotton. Though this area was where Native American tribes lived, like the Cherokee nation, Creek nation, Choctaw nation, Chicasaw nation and the Seminole nation. The settlers asked government to obtain the Native Ameican territory. During the presidency of Andrew Jackson, in 1830, Congress passed the "Indian Removal Act." Views on the act were from the people. Some settlers wanted Native Americans to be completely gone from the southern east coast, but others were fine with the presence of the them. The Cherokee rapidly fought the removal by stating that they were an independent nation. Supreme Court ruled that the Cherokee nation was sovereign, but they still were attacked and discriminated. Most nations defended their land differently than the Cherokee, they fought a deafensively until the white settlers finally took over. One of those nations was the Creek, after they couldn't fight any longer, the white settlers won 2.2 million acres from Georgia and Alabama. One of the most horrible ways settlers tried to gain Native American land was to try to completely kill the whole nation. Website used: [] []

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-Paige S.

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