the trail of tears

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1. Action Points

1.1. not many agreed with there decision

1.2. The federal government promised that their new land would remain unmolested forever .

1.3. thousands of Native Americans had been driven off of their land in the southeastern states and forced to move across the Mississippi to Indian territory.

2. Ideas

2.1. They traveled by foot, horse, wagon, or steamboat in 1838-1839.

2.2. they went through a lot

2.3. they wanted the native Americans to be like them

3. Problem

3.1. Problems

3.1.1. Problem 3

3.2. State governments joined in this effort to drive Native Americans out of the South.

3.3. They stole livestock; burned and looted houses and towns,and squatted on land that did not belong to them

4. what they wanted

4.1. they were forced to move west

4.2. they wanted to make them convert to Christianity

4.3. 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida