JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
AGE OF THE COMMON MAN
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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making the land available for white settlers and farmers
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allowing the Cherokee their freedom from U.S. control
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obeying the Supreme Court’s order to move the Cherokee
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creating a wilderness area for use by French fur trappers
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Detailed explanation-1: -The goal was to remove all American Indians living in existing states and territories and send them to unsettled land in the west.
Detailed explanation-2: -The removal of the Cherokees was a product of the demand for arable land during the rampant growth of cotton agriculture in the Southeast, the discovery of gold on Cherokee land, and the racial prejudice that many white southerners harbored toward American Indians.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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.