This is a look at the forced march of the Cherokee from their homes in Georgia to "Indian Territory" in what is now Oklahoma.

1. Trail
of
Tears

2. removal
•Much of Jackson’s
popularity was based on
his battles against the
Amerindians of Florida in
the years before Florida
became U.S. property.

3. removal
• When Southern farmers
decided that they needed
more land for their
plantations and wanted to
expand on to Amerindian
territory, Jackson was only
too happy to help.

4. removal
• He convinced Congress to pass
the Indian Removal Act of
1830, which gave the President
the authority to trade
Amerindians land in the area of
the Louisiana Purchase for their
land east of the Mississippi
River.

5. removal
• Many Amerindian groups
went along with this, but
the so-called “Five Civilized
Tribes” (Cherokee, Creek,
Choctaw, Chickasaw, and
Seminole) did not.

6. removal
• These tribes were forced to
leave their ancestral land,
leaving their acres and acres
of cultivated land for the
hard prairie of the Indian
Territory in present-day
Oklahoma.

7. removal
•The Cherokee, who had
assimilated the most into
white American culture,
tried to fight the removal
act through the court
system.

8. removal
• In the Supreme Court case
of Worcester v. Georgia, the
Cherokee sued to be able to
stay on their land in Georgia
and John Marshall agreed
with them.

9. removal
• Jackson, again not a big
supporter of the
Amerindians, was supposed
to have remarked that “John
Marshall has made his
decision. Now let him
enforce it.”

10. removal
• The Cherokees were forced to
take a 116-day, 1,000 mile walk
from Georgia to the Oklahoma
Territory that became known as
the Trail of Tears, as 1 out of 4
Cherokees died during the
journey.

11. removal

12. removal
• Other Amerindian groups
continued their attempts to
stop expansion into their
territory, but they were
unable to prevent it from
happening.