JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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Many battles took place along the journey.
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Some government officials wept over Jackson’s decision.
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It describes the legend of the “Weeping Eagle”.
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Thousands of Cherokees died along the journey.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Trail of Tears. In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson’s Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the “Trail of Tears, ” because of its devastating effects.
Detailed explanation-2: -They made the journey to Indian Territory on foot (some “bound in chains and marched double file, ” one historian writes), and without any food, supplies or other help from the government. Thousands of people died along the way. It was, one Choctaw leader told an Alabama newspaper, a “trail of tears and death.”
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1838 and 1839 U.S. troops, prompted by the state of Georgia, expelled the Cherokee Indians from their ancestral homeland in the Southeast and removed them to the Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma.
Detailed explanation-4: -The removal, or forced emigration, of Cherokee Indians occurred in 1838, when the U.S. military and various state militias forced some 15, 000 Cherokees from their homes in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee and moved them west to Indian Territory (now present-day Oklahoma).
Detailed explanation-5: -It began just south of Fort Payne, Alabama, ran northwestward to Huntsville, and went on to Pulaski, Tennessee, and Jackson, Missouri. From there it tended southwestward to the Batesville area in northeastern Arkansas and then westward to Fayetteville, where the group disbanded.