Next in line to take over for the captured chief was who the English called King Philip. He to set a couple of raids against the settlements. The English started to fight back and led Philips troops into the mountains. The Indians were chased and were pushed into a river. A few gave up but the others started to swim in the water. The English surrounded the river and held them at gunpoint. The Indians started to get tired and some drowned. The ones who were still alive were then shot and killed. The angry settlers also went to the Wampanoag settlements and set fire to the wig- wams. The women and children who came running out were shot and the others were left inside to burn. Captured Indians from King Philips war were sold into slavery and King Philip's head was displayed for many years at Plymouth. This war is considered the last major Indian resistance to the white settlers.
Later in the 19th century, the United States started to expand into the lower South. The settlers moving south faced what they considered an obstacle. The area that they were moving into was the home of many Indian tribes including the Cherokee, the Creek, and the Choctaw. In an attempt to gain control of the lands of these tribes, the settlers pressured the government for the land.
The United States offered eleven treaties to the Indians, which took their land in the east in exchange for land in the west. The Indian tribes accepted only to please the government and not have to face white harassment. As a result of the treaties, the US gained control of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky, and North Carolina. .
Hoping to be able to keep their homelands, the Cherokee Indians declared themselves a sovereign nation. Georgia didn't see the nation as a sovereign one, so the Cherokee took their case to the Supreme Court who ruled against them.
The Cherokee's went to the Supreme Court again in 1831. This time they based their case on the Georgia law that prohibited whites from living on Indian Territory after March 31, 1831.
