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JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850

AGE OF THE COMMON MAN

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“On the morning of November the 17th we encountered a terrific sleet and snow storm with freezing temperatures ____ the sufferings of the Cherokees were awful. They had to sleep in the wagons and on the ground without fire. And I have known as many as twenty-two of them to die in one night of pneumonia due to ill treatment, cold, and exposure.”-Story of Private John G. Burnett, Captain Abraham McClellan’s Company, 2nd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, Mounted Infantry, Cherokee Indian Removal, 1838-39The Cherokee attempted to prevent the event described above by-
A
appealing to the U.S. Congress to stay on their lands.
B
waging war against the U.S military to remain a sovereign nation.
C
paying the U.S. government $15 million to keep their lands.
D
settling the issue in court through the case, Worcester v. Georgia.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -John G. Burnett, a member of the 2nd Regiment, 2nd Brigade, Mounted Infantry, provided his retrospective account of the 1838-39 removal of the Cherokee in 1890 in a letter to his children. P]erish or remove! It might be, –remove and perish!

Detailed explanation-2: -Guided by policies favored by President Andrew Jackson, who led the country from 1828 to 1837, the Trail of Tears (1837 to 1839) was the forced westward migration of American Indian tribes from the South and Southeast. Land grabs threatened tribes throughout the South and Southeast in the early 1800s.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Trail of Tears was the forced relocation during the 1830s of Indigenous peoples of the Southeast region of the United States (including the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole, among others) to the so-called Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.

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