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The Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the Trail of Tears
Describe the forced removal of the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole peoples to territory west of the Mississippi on the Trail of Tears.
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Native American Resistance and the Indian Removal Act
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Examine 19th-century Indigenous resistance movements, legal battles for sovereignty, and the impact of federal Indian removal policies.
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5.T4.5Massachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th GradeExplain 19th century conflicts between Native Peoples and national, state, and local governments in the United States over land ownership and rights to self-government.
5.T4.5.bMassachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th GradePresident Andrew Jackson and the Indian Removal Act (1830), which forced native communities to move from their ancestral lands in the Southeast to territory west of the Mississippi River