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Kevin Lutz

Removal of Native Americans from Georgia

In most of the slave states, the onward march of cotton cultivation placed an enormous pressure on remaining Indian lands. During the 1820’s, other states, like Missouri, forced its Indian population to leave the state. Soon after Missouri forced its Indians to move, other slave states, including Georgia, followed with the policy of expulsion. The Indian Removal Act of 1830, provided for uprooting the Five Civilized Tribes-the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole- with a population of about 60,000 living in North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi. These tribes had made great efforts to become everything republican citizens should be. The Cherokee were the most advanced. They had even written their own framework of government to that of the Constitution of the United States. But Jackson often referred to the Indians as savages and supported Georgia’s efforts to seize their land and......

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