i have lived a thousand years important qoutes in chapter 12

It opened up 25 million acres of eastern land to white settlement and, since the bulk of the land was in the American south, to the expansion of slavery. These led to the relocation of nearly 50,000 eastern Indians to the Indian Territory-what later became eastern Oklahoma.

Jackson declared that removal would 'incalculably strengthen the southwestern frontier.' Clearing Alabama and Mississippi of their Indian populations, he said, would 'enable those states to advance rapidly in population, wealth, and power.'īy the end of Jackson’s Presidency, his administration had negotiated almost 70 removal treaties. In his message on December 6, 1830, President Jackson informed Congress on the progress of the removal, stating, 'It gives me pleasure to announce to Congress that the benevolent policy of the Government, steadily pursued for nearly thirty years, in relation to the removal of the Indians beyond the white settlements is approaching to a happy consummation.' The goal was to remove all American Indians living in existing states and territories and send them to unsettled land in the west. The Act authorized the President to negotiate removal treaties with Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi River, primarily in the states of Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, and others. The first major step to relocate American Indians came when Congress passed, and President Andrew Jackson signed, the Indian Removal Act of May 28, 1830. In the early 1800s, American demand for Indian nations' land increased, and momentum grew to force American Indians further west.

I have lived a thousand years important qoutes in chapter 12