The Cherokee--Renascence and Removal

1. Background--The Cherokee Beleaguered
2. Stabilization and Progress
   1. The Washington Administration
      1. Security Concerns on Frontier
      2. Henry Knox and the "Civilization" Policy--Europeanizing the Natives
   2. Cherokee Response
      1. Predisposition--European Cultural Inroads
         1. Decay of Traditional Culture
         2. The Mixed-Blood Influence
         3. Appropriating the Enemy's Weapons
      2. Cherokee "Progress"
         1. An Agricultural Society
         2. Commerce--The Rise of a Wealthy Native Elite
         3. Literacy--Sequoyah, Boudinot, and the Cherokee Phoenix
         4. Republicanism--a Constitutional State (1827)
3. The Removal Movement
   1. Conditions
      1. The Cherokee vs. "States' Rights"
      2. White Racism
      3. The Role of Andrew Jackson
      4. The Course of Events
         1. The Removal Act of 1830
         2. The Georgia Invasion (1830)
         3. Exploiting Cherokee Factionalism--The "Treaty Party" and the Treaty of New Echota (1835)
         4. Removal--The "Trail of Tears" (1838)
   2. The Remnant--The Eastern Band of Cherokees