Indian Removal Act

1. Indian Removal Act By: Brooks Wanamaker & Justin Phan

2. Facts • May 18th 1838 The united states was armed and plowed through all Cherokee towns moving all native Americans west. An army of looters followed behind them raiding all of the towns completely taking anything that has value to it. • The Indians were only allowed to take what they could carry. • That spring about 17,000 people had lost there homes. • June 1838 the first group relocated west so they then paused the removal • In July 1838 hundreds of Cherokee began to die in overcrowded stockades. • October 1838 the removal resumed further west

3. President Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson was born March 15, 1767. He became the 7thpresident of the united states. Was in office from 1829 through 1837. Andrew Jackson passed the Indian removal act on May 24th,1830. Indians There were 5 civilized tribes consisting of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee-Creek, and Seminole. All where in the south eastern American land. The Indians were in American land and Andrew Jackson was not happy that they were in our land. Indians wanted to fight and fight to keep there place where they have been settling for years. Andrew wanted all Indians to move west of the Missouri River, on federal land

4. Indians Today • Native living conditions today are harsh. Some Indians are homeless, others are poor, and some are even in bad health. Here are some facts about their lives. • Heart disease is the leading cause of death for American Indians Due to the link between heart disease, diabetes, poverty, and quality of nutrition and health care, 36% of Natives with heart disease will die before age 65 compared to 15% of Caucasians. • American Indians are 177% more likely to die from diabetes. • 500% are more likely to die from tuberculosis. • 82% are more likely to die from suicide. • Cancer rates and disparities related to cancer treatment are higher than for other Americans. • Infant death rates are 60% higher than for Caucasians. • That is their current status in this world. Please help them.

5. “Average family incomes of the non-poor are about six times as large as for the poor Seventy-one percent of the expenditures of the families of poor* individuals is for food, shelter, utilities, and apparel, compared to 46 percent for families of the non-poor. For those in poor, single-parent families, the share spent on these necessities is 80 percent. Seventy-eight percent of the non-poor live in homes their families own, compared to 41 percent of the poor and 24 percent of those living in poor, single-parent families. Those living in poor households are twice as likely to be victims of violent crimes as are the non-poor. Those is poor, single-parent families are more than three times as likely. 13.5 out of every 1000 infants born to poor mothers and 14.6 out of every 1000 infants born to poor, single mothers die within their first year, compared to 8.3 per 1000 the non-poor. Twenty-seven percent of the poor live in families that report two or more of the following: eviction in the past year, crowding having moderate or severe housing upkeep problems, having gas or electricity turned off in the past year, having the phone disconnected in the past year, not having enough food in the past four months, living without a refrigerator, living without a stove, and living without a telephone. Only 3 percent of the non-poor report two or more of these events.” American today

6. Indian Removal Act justification Eight years before the united states started to push the Indians that were in our land using it as theirs. While the Indians were on our land the united states began to grow the Indians were in our land. The land that the Indians were settling in was very rich and large land good for farming also good for settling on. So by creating the Indian removal act it moved all Indians out of our land so that we could have our land back allowing the united states to grow.

7. Secondary Sources http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2959.htmlI believe that this is a good web site because PBS is a very good and reliable company that we can trust. http://www.pbs.org/indiancountry/history/trail.html PBS has created this article too and for the same reason I have picked this company because of its reliability I have chosen a book called The Indian Removal Act. Author Mark Stewart. Published 2007. compass point books. Minneapolis ,Minnesota http://www.nrcprograms.org/site/PageServer?pagename=naa_livingconditionsI have used this site because it has been recently updated and has the information about the publisher. Primary Sources