History of the United States II / Unit 2 USH2 0173 short lesson, about 20 seconds
From Removal to Reservations
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The idea
The Indian Removal Act of eighteen thirty drove nearly fifty thousand Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole people west.
In practice
The first Treaty of Fort Laramie of eighteen fifty-one, drawing tribal borders and beginning the reservation system.
Where people slip
Tribes were paid fifty thousand dollars a year to stay clear of settler paths, for fifty years, later cut to ten.
Your place on the trail
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