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The Frontier and Native Americans

1830: Passage of the Removal Act, which President Andrew signed into law. The Removal Act did not order the removal of any American Indians, but it authorized the President to negotiate that would exchange tribal land in the east for western lands that had been acquired in the Louisiana Purchase. Numerous Indian Removal treaties were signed, which led to the of many Native American tribes west of the Mississippi. This culminated in the in the winter the winter of 1838-39, when four thousand Cherokees died of cold and exhaustion (épuisement) during their journey from North Carolina to Oklahoma. 1848: to California, attracting gold seekers (chercheurs d'or), nicknamed "forty-niners" (as a reference to 1849), to the western state along the California Trail or via the ocean. This was considered as an example of America's , to overspread (se répandre sur) and to possess the whole continent given by Providence. 1861: The continental is completed between the east and the west coast.

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