ACQUIRING INDIAN LANDS Chapter 4

Directions: Use the chart below to list the five treaties by which the Choctaw and
Chickasaw Indians ceded their land in Mississippi to the federal government. Also
list the land received by the United States and the compensation received by the
Indians.

Date Treaty Received by the Received by Native

United States Americans
1801 Treaty of fort land “merchandise”
adams And a promide that
was not kept

1805 Treaty of Mount 4 millie acres A little bit of land

Dexter

1820 Treaty of Doak’s 5 millie acres Land. They rejected

Stand it cuz it had already
been settled by
white people

1830 Treaty of Rabbit The rest of They were made to

Creek Mississippi leave

1832 Treaty of Pontotoc North Mississippi They got the

Creek ‘privilege’ of leaving
their home alive