lndian Removal

[Keith Broaders]

When the British Colonist first cane to North A merica rge land was already inhabited by at least 80 different tribes consisting of a population of over  250,000.

The British colonists invaded the land and beleieved that it was their right and duty as Christians to claim the land abd vanquish the indigenious peoples.

The Cherokee Nation traded all of their land east of the Mississippi River to the U.S. in 1835 for $5 million, relocation assistance, and compensation for lost property. This land was roughly 7 million acres. 

At the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida–land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations.