Assimilation Of Native American Settlers In The 19th Century

The four regions that constituted the U.S. at this time are the nation's major cities, the South, the North, and Trans-Appalachia.
-The nation's cities were centers of commerce, trade and manufacturing. The artisans and apprentices of the 18th century gave way to factories and wage-based pay in the 19th century which caused urban life to radically shift toward a labor-focused rather than agrarian-focused lifestyle. In New York shoes and iron were top commodities while Philadelphia was a center for textiles. With agriculture becoming less of a focus, the gap between the lower and upper classes was widened between laborers and factory owners.
-The South was the agricultural hub of the United States, producing cotton, sugar and tobacco. At this
government took which both hastened assimilation of Native Americans into white society and the transfer of Native Land to whites was the Indian Intercourse Act (1790). This action stated that Indians who owned land could not have it taken away unless it was given to white settlers or taken by the "right of conquest." In other words, this act ensured that white settlers would harass and attack Indians in order to compel them to cede their land to whites, and if they did not then white settlers had the right to exercise their "right of conquest" over Indian land to take it by force. On a religious level, the other distinct action the U.S. government took in this regard was a campaign of religious assimilation by Christian missionaries with the support of the government. Indian culture was seen as savage and un-Christian to these missionaries, and the constant presence and influence of missionaries among Indians took the form of schooling Indians into white culture and white ways of life to assimilate them. With this influence of missionaries, it became much easier for other whites and the government to further take advantage of half-assimilated Indians and take their land in the guise of helping them to fully assimilate into white
interests was the attempt by the Cherokee tribe to rewrite their laws according to U.S. laws. Where before the Cherokee were fragmented, the Cherokee National Council declared that the Cherokee people were an independent nation and could rule over their own territories. To resist white claims over Cherokee land, the council passed an 1829 law that required the consent of tribal leaders for land to be transferred to a white settler. This helped to ensure that individual Indian land owners were not unduly taken advantage of without the rest of the tribe's knowledge, and the chance to stop the land from being ceded. Native Americans consistently resisted the expansion of settlers West once it was clear that their territory was being encroached on by the U.S. They resisted by attacking and raiding white settlers who traveled through Indian land, and the practice of war by Indians helped to preserve their pride in their culture while attempting to slow down the encroachment into their lands. The lack of military might and organization between different tribes allowed the United States to attack them enough to gradually defeat them. The Battle of Fallen Timbers marked the end of this resistance as Indian chiefs gave a vast swath of Ohio to the United States which allowed white settlers a point in the Midwest from which to further expand into Indian land. The only advantage to this was an end to U.S. military retaliatory attacks