The Trail Of Tears
In the turn of the 19th century, land-hungry American settlers were forcing westwards, into land that would become Alabama and Mississippi. Native American individuals living in this land were seen as an impediment to western growth and lawful means were hunted to displace them. President Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830, where the government offered property west of the Mississippi to Indian tribes that consented to give their homelands. The resettlement areas have been in unorganized territory in a group traversing present-day Texas, northwards to Iowa. There followed the almost completely involuntary displacement into the West of Native Americans with homelands'east of the Mississippi River', since the us civil war map authorities used persuasion, bribery, coercion and threats to eliminate the recalcitrant tribes. A few of these tribes moved peacefully, but a lot of resisted relocation. He also soughta veneer of legality by procuring treaties agreeing transp...