United States History Student Edition

Native American Removal Under the Indian Removal Act, upward of 46,000 people were forced from their homes and farms to make room for white Americans. Some 9,000 to as many as 17,000 Native Americans died from the forced removal and migration.

FORCED MIGRATIONS OF NATIVE AMERICANS 1830–1840

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» The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail commemorates the forced removal of the Cherokee to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). The trails pass through nine states. A statue of a Native American woman holding an infant while placing a cross on her husband’s grave marks the trail in Tuscumbia, Alabama.

» Before becoming president, Andrew Jackson dueled and killed a man who had insulted him and his wife. Jackson was known for his fiery temper throughout his life.

» From 1846 to 1869, about 400,000 people traveled from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon Country. This photo shows ruts from wagon wheels that can still be seen on the Oregon Trail.

(tl)RSBPhoto/Alamy Stock Photo; (inset)Terry Smith Images/Alamy Stock Photo; (bl)Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division [LC-USZ62-60874]; (br)Leon Werdinger/Alamy Stock Photo

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