INDIAN REMOVAL IN AMERICAN HISTORY

I.   Introduction:  A Dark Chapter

A.  A fair and just nation?
B.  Race and Economic Conflict

II.  Indian-Colonist Confrontation

A.  Jamestown, Virginia
B.  Puritans in New England
        1.  Pequot War (1636-37)
        2.  Metacom's War (1675-76)
C.  Post-Revolution U.S. Federal Indian Policy
        1.  Northwest Ordinance (1787)
        2.  Treaty of Greenville (1795)

III. Indian Removal Under Andrew Jackson

A.  Conflicting perceptions of land use
B.  The Pressure for Land
C.  Lewis Cass and the "Hunter State" Argument
D.  Cherokee Advances
        1.  Chief John Ross
E.  Jackson and the Indian Removal Act of 1830
F.  Forced Relocation and the Trail of Tears
G.  Life on the Great Plains

IV.  Indian Extermination in California

A.  Indians in Spanish California
B.  Violence
C.  Extermination

The Five Civilized Tribes:  Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Seminole, and Creeks.