Problem 1) What do you think was the main consideration of the government in implementing the Indian Removal Act?
Problem 2) How did the white settlers view the Indians at the time? What impact do you think their views had on Indian policy?
Problem 3) Why did some Indians agree to removal treaties even though they did not want to leave their land?
Problem 4) Should Indians today be compensated for the fact that the Indians were forced from their lands more than 150 years ago? Why or why not? If so, in what way should they be compensated?
Problem 5) To make more land available for the settlers, and to resolve increasing conflicts between settlers and Indians, the government initiated a policy of Indian removal, relocating the Indians to western lands from their ancestral lands in the east. Formulate your own Indian policy for the time: How would you resolve the growing tension between Indians and settlers?