Question

Recall what you have read about the history of US relations with American Indians up to the late 1830s. In three to five sentences, explain the effects of American Indian removal on eastern tribes.

Answer 1

The removal was a tragedy. Thousand of American Indians were forced to leave their homes, crops and everything they knew, and started an adaptation to a new environment west of the Mississippi River. During this removal, the Choctaws, Cherokees, Chickasaw, Creeks and Seminoles suffered from cholera, inadequate supplies, cold, starvation and exhaustion.

Answer 2

Thousands of people died on the journey.

Many Cherokee refused to move but were forced to move anyway.

Some American Indians fought back.

American Indians lost their culture and their lands.

Life in the Indian Territory was difficult.