Indian+Removal+Act

= Indian Removal Act of 1830 =

By Gretchen Stone and Savannah Peters
In 1830 Andrew Jackson issued the "Indian Removal Act", which pushed all native americans living in the east to the west of the Mississippi River. Some American's saw this as an excuse for a brutal and inhumane course of action, and protested loudly against removal. The first of the tribes to sign the treaty were the Choctaws, from Alabama in September of 1830

photo from--http://ushistoryimages.com/sioux-indians.shtm

One of the effects of the indians moving were it's resources. Indians were migratory hunters who only followed the game and had no attachment to any particular lands. Since they were being pushed to lands they didn't know, the indians didn't know what to hunt or couldn't even hunt because lack of weaponry. photo from google images

President Andrew Jackson at the time thought of native american as dirty, mean, savages. In one of his speeches he argued that the Indian Removal Act "will separate the Indians from immediate contact with settlements of whites; enable them to pursue happiness in their own way and under their own rude institutions; will retard the progress of decay, which i s lessening their numbers, and perhaps cause them gradually, under the protection of the government and through the influences of good counsels, to cast off their savage habits and become and interesting, civilized, and christian community."

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