Congress passes the Indian Removal Act, which…
1828 CE to 1839 CE
Its goal is primarily to remove Native Americans, including the "Five Civilized Tribes", from the American Southeast; they occupy land that settlers want.
Jacksonian Democrats demand the forcible removal of native populations who refuse to acknowledge state laws to reservations in the West; Whigs and religious leaders oppose the move as inhumane.
Thousands of deaths result from the relocations, as seen in the Cherokee Trail of Tears.
The Trail of Tears results in approximately two thousand to eight thousand of the sixteen thousand five hundred and forty-three relocated Cherokee perish along the way.
Many of the Seminole Indians in Florida refuse to move west; they fight the Army for years in the Seminole Wars.
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